Batya Ungar-Sargon stops in to talk about her new book Second Class: How the Elites Betrayed America's Working Men and Women , which focuses on the growing divide between the elite and working class in America. She and Bridget discuss the shift in political parties' attitudes towards the working class, Trump's appeal to blue-collar voters, the impact of education on social and economic status, how Hollywood portrays working-class life, and the concept of "woke" ideology as a smokescreen for economic inequality. They also cover immigration, why the current class divide is more significant than racial or political divisions, the shrinking middle class, how politicians and elites speak to crowds that are made up of people of color, and the abandonment of the working class by both major political parties and the cultural elite.

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Andrew Boryga sits down with Bridget to discuss his book Victim, a sa tire about a hustler from the Bronx who sees through the veneer of diversity initiatives and decides to cash in on the weaponization of identity politics. They talk about his journey as a writer, how the book changed over the 10 years it took to write, the evolution of the novel's main character, the idea of people playing on their victim status for personal gain and sympathy, and his motivations for tackling themes of victimhood, diversity, and resilience. They cover his experience writing at the New York Times, being asked to write a certain type of story about his trauma and oppression over and over again, why he'd rather talk about the class differences than racial differences, parenting in a tech-driven world, managing work-life balance, and what becoming a dad changed about the way he approached his writing.

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Comedian Dulcé Sloan sits down with Bridget for a conversation covering a wide range of topics including her approach to performing stand-up, dealing with rejection in the comedy industry, being a strong person out of necessity, how we all got traumatized as a planet during COVID, the importance of being nicer to yourself, and why she believes cancer will never be cured. They also cover how Dulcé's manager tricked her into writing a book, the struggle of balancing a successful career with a desire for marriage and children, the realities of fertility drugs, why being strong is exhausting, and her favorite game to play with other comics, Marry, F*ck, Quit Comedy. Check out Dulcé's book Hello, Friends!: Stories of Dating, Destiny, and Day Jobs .

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Nellie Bowles sits down with Bridget to talk about her new book Morning After the Revolution: Dispatches From The Wrong Side of History , a critique on the progressive cultural movement and its impacts on journalism, education, healthcare, and society at large. They discuss the suppression of curiosity and dissenting viewpoints in media, gender theory being taught in elementary schools, luxury beliefs, homelessness, the politicization of the lockdowns, and COVID deaths vs. fentanyl deaths. They also cover the sick pleasure elites take in endorsing a chaos that they don’t actually believe in, the restoration of the SATs, contradictions within transgender advocacy, the loss of faith in institutions, the reason conspiracies flourish, fake homesteading videos, moms who go hard, and whether these are the worst options for President we’ve ever had.

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Bridget sits down with clinical psychologist Jonathan Shedler and they discuss the challenges of finding qualified therapists, the division between practitioners and researchers in the field and the effects of that division, the lack of public understanding about legitimate therapy credentials, and the danger of the trend towards brief, "evidence-based" therapies that ignore the time and relationship required for true psychological change. They cover therapy as a collaborative process of deep self-discovery, the importance of nuance over black-and-white thinking, Freud's lasting contributions to the field, the impact of online culture, the overuse of therapeutic language, why therapy should not be a place to seek validation and empathy, how we need a a renaissance of insight-oriented psychotherapy, what to look for when interviewing potential therapists and the most important question you should ask them.

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Comedian Rachel Feinstein sits down with Bridget for a hilarious comparison of their lives. They relate over what disasters they are while they're both married to super-organized men, their confident toddlers, their similar moms, Rachel's fireman husband and Bridget's fireman brother, and why neither one of them likes to tell other moms that she's a comedian. They talk about their previous dating lives, their affinity for working class alcoholics, how their husbands keep them together, how Rachel got into comedy, and the mean nickname the kids in her class called her when she was seven. Check out Rachel's new special on Netflix, Big Guy.

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Clifton Duncan returns to the podcast to discuss the importance of creating culture that we can all share and the role the arts play in our shared experience. He and Bridget discuss the erosion of the spiritual well-being of our society, how art is what a civilization leaves behind once its gone, the effect that politics and political correctness are having on the arts in general, the loss of men and masculinity in the arts, and the reason good art is transcendent appeals to our common humanity. They also cover Clifton's crowd funded Thomas Sowell play, the backlash to making art more politically overt in one direction, how being a professional idiot is really difficult, why normal people don't go into theater, the importance of a live audience, and why neither one of them wants to be just another talking head. Check out Clifton's Substack here .

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Comedian Carmen Lynch stops in for a hilarious conversation with Bridget about women in comedy, their writing processes, Millennials acting like they're old, how Gen X always gets skipped, how much comedy had changed, and what disasters they both are. They discuss living among the normies, why comedy is the antidote to being butthurt, how people need to be reminded of joy, being a late bloomer, why you're never really ready for the things you want to do, waiting for the industry gatekeepers, the next steps for their books, why they always want more no matter what level of success they achieve, and how they're all comparing themselves to Rogan. Check out Carmen's new comedy special Queef Week.

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