E348. Finding Truth in a Sea of Slop - Nancy Rommelmann

E348. Finding Truth in a Sea of Slop - Nancy Rommelmann

Author: Conversations with people from all walks of life. July 24, 2025 Duration: 1:19:50
Nancy Rommelmann returns to Walk-Ins Welcome fresh from reporting on ICE raids for Reason Magazine. She and Bridget discuss LA's unprecedented triple crisis—immigration crackdowns, devastating wildfires, and Hollywood's exodus—and what might be next for the city, which leads to the larger question of whether America itself is resetting. They cover why Gen Z might be our saving grace, the return to real-world connections (cooking, gardening, live events, dinner parties) as an antidote to digit...

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E388. What the Internet Did to Girls | Freya India - Walk-Ins Welcome [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:21:22
Bridget Phetasy sits down with Freya India, British writer and author of Girls: Generation Z and the Commodification of Everything, to dig into why Gen Z women are struggling in ways previous generations didn't. They dis…