Writing A Book Radicalized Me | Bridget Phetasy - Walk-Ins Welcome 411

Bridget checks in with Maggie right after finishing the first draft of her book, The Left Can’t Meme: How Comedy Wins Culture Wars. She walks through the brutal, years-long process of selling and writing it — the endless proposal feedback loops, the mental block of trying to write about the culture while the culture is still unfolding, and surrendering to the lack of control you have about what’s going on in the world during the process. They discuss the question she set out to answer: how did the left lose the culture when they owned Hollywood, publishing, media, and big tech? She also gets into why revisiting the last decade left her angrier and more radicalized than when she started, battling resistance and self-doubt, reliving just how dark the Biden years and COVID really were, how Elon buying Twitter liberated the discourse, and why the book is dedicated to the shitposting anons. #TheLeftCantMeme #WritingABook #walkinswelcome Topics covered: writing a book about the culture war, how the left lost the culture, using AI as a research tool, The War of Art and creative resistance, COVID lockdowns and the Biden years, Elon buying Twitter and free speech, memes and 4chan, the book writing process 🎙️ New episodes every week. Subscribe for more deep-dive interviews. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsor Links: Quest offers 100+ lab tests to empower you to have more control over your health journey. Choose from a variety of test types that best suit your needs, use code WALKINS25 to get 25% off - https://www.questhealth.com If you love Walk-Ins Welcome become a supporter at https://phetasy.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy - Podcast 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PHETASY IS a movement disguised as a company. We just want to make you laugh while the world burns. https://www.phetasy.com/ Buy PHETASY MERCH here: https://www.bridgetphetasy.com/ For more content, including the unedited version of Dumpster Fire, BTS content, writing, photos, livestreams and a kick-ass community, subscribe at https://phetasy.com/ Twitter -   / bridgetphetasy   Instagram -   / bridgetphetasy   Podcast - Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/w... https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbRU0q... https://play.google.com/music/listen?...