{"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":"E385. The Death of Shame and the Collapse of Culture | Elnathan John - Walk-Ins Welcome","slug":"e385-the-death-of-shame-and-the-collapse-of-culture-elnathan-john-walk-ins-welcome","published_at":"2026-04-09T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e385-the-death-of-shame-and-the-collapse-of-culture-elnathan-john-walk-ins-welcome","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18984434-e385-the-death-of-shame-and-the-collapse-of-culture-elnathan-john-walk-ins-welcome.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/18984434-e385-the-death-of-shame-and-the-collapse-of-culture-elnathan-john-walk-ins-welcome.mp3","summary":"Bridget Phetasy sits down with Elnathan John, Nigerian satirist and author of Becoming Nigerian, for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when an entire culture loses the ability to feel shame. Elnathan argues that the effectiveness of satire is directly proportional to a society's capacity for shame—and right now, that capacity is bottoming out everywhere from Lagos to Washington. In this episode, they discuss: • The comedian's complex relationship to power • Why decla...","meta_description":"Bridget Phetasy sits down with Elnathan John, Nigerian satirist and author of Becoming Nigerian, for a wide-ranging conversation about what happens when a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":6629,"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/e385-the-death-of-shame-and-the-collapse-of-culture-elnathan-john-walk-ins-welcome/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/e385-the-death-of-shame-and-the-collapse-of-culture-elnathan-john-walk-ins-welcome.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}