I wanted to leave California before it was cool
From our US edition
We can’t pretend that the problems ravaging the state are new
Bridget Phetasy
Tuesday
Monday
Why I’ll never make it in stand-up
From our US edition
It’s the hardest, most unforgiving performance medium on the planet
Thursday
I regret my promiscuity
From our US edition
Casual sex is fraught with insecurity and miscommunication
Monday
I apologize for my white baby
From our US edition
How can I extol the virtues of anti-racism while birthing another white person?
Thursday
Greetings from the Newborn Bubble
From our US edition
It’s all white noise and shushing and singing and rocking
Monday
I am woman. Watch me push
From our US edition
In an effort to make everything inclusive, we are erasing women
Thursday
A state of virtual war
From our US edition
Most of us can’t tell the difference between high-quality video games and actual war
Sunday
#Wanderlusting
From our US edition
For someone with a gypsy soul, traveling is life
Monday
In the valley of the shadow of birth
From our US edition
Pregnancy revealed that I didn’t know anything.
Monday
It’s the Dawn of Omicron
From our US edition
I’m more afraid of how governments will weaponize a new variant than of the Omicron variant itself
Thursday
Pregnant at the end of the world
From our US edition
Seeing that new life on the ultrasound gave me hope for the future — not dread
Monday
America needs a 12-step program
From our US edition
As I hit my eighth sober birthday, I’m reflecting on exactly how much getting sober played a part in where I am today
Thursday
Worse than porn
From our US edition
I am a ‘media personality’ who occasionally opens my pie-hole on conservative media outlets. I’ve even appeared on Fox
Thursday
My country, right or left
From our US edition
Today, the Democratic version of patriotism seems to be an endless stream of resentment and self-loathing
Sunday
A matter of life and death
From our US edition
The space between a biopsy and the results
Wednesday
Playboy of the western world
From our US edition
We aren’t living in Hef’s cultured Playboy world anymore; if anything, we are living in Hustler’s nightmare
Thursday
Why should we hate 'vaxports'?
28 min listen
Vaccine passports seem all but inevitable in the UK and parts of the US. While some are relatively relaxed about the prospects of a de facto bio-security ID card, others are not. Spectator US contributor Bridget Phetasy is one of them, and on this episode tells Freddy Gray why she hates the ‘vaxport’.
Tuesday
I hate vaccine passports — and you should too
From our US edition
Who believes that the government, Big Tech and corporations have our best interest at heart?
Tuesday
How to overcome the new fear of flying
From our US edition
With few exceptions, almost every single person tried to talk us out of going
Tuesday
Now make me rich
From our US edition
Are Bridget’s meme stonks going to the moon?
