{"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":"E386. Why Everyone Online Is in a Cult | Andrew Gold - Walk-Ins Welcome","slug":"e386-why-everyone-online-is-in-a-cult-andrew-gold-walk-ins-welcome","published_at":"2026-04-16T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989/e386-why-everyone-online-is-in-a-cult-andrew-gold-walk-ins-welcome","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/walk-ins-welcome-with-bridget-phetasy-917989","url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/19022893-e386-why-everyone-online-is-in-a-cult-andrew-gold-walk-ins-welcome.mp3","audio_url":"https://www.buzzsprout.com/2433291/episodes/19022893-e386-why-everyone-online-is-in-a-cult-andrew-gold-walk-ins-welcome.mp3","summary":"Bridget sits down with Andrew Gold, host of the Heretics podcast and author of The Psychology of Secrets, for a conversation about cult dynamics, Islamism in Europe, purity spirals, and what happens when your online tribe starts demanding you sell your soul to keep them. Andrew breaks down how YouTube channels, political movements, and entire cultures operate on the same psychological mechanics as Scientology and Heaven's Gate — just at different points on the spectrum. They get into why the ...","meta_description":"Bridget sits down with Andrew Gold, host of the Heretics podcast and author of The Psychology of Secrets, for a conversation about cult dynamics, Islamism…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7313,"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/e386-why-everyone-online-is-in-a-cult-andrew-gold-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/e386-why-everyone-online-is-in-a-cult-andrew-gold-walk-ins-welcome.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}