Weeding out our Library (&&& 420 special)
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 20 April 2026
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
&y & &ers celebrate weed's birthday with our annual reading of "Wally B" (Walter Benjamin)!
This year, we read Leon Wieseltier's weasel-tier preface to Benjamin's Illuminations, then "Unpacking My Library" and a section of Berlin Childhood.
For the full episode, subscribe at http://patreon.com/thiswreckage & listen to the end for a story of Anders' Benjamin-inspired direct action against Rahm Emmanuel.
Song: Eminem - Cleanin' Out My Closet (Slowed)
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| 0:00.0 | It's that time of the year again, everybody. |
| 0:06.5 | That time where you wake up and you bake. |
| 0:11.5 | No, not cookies. |
| 0:13.8 | You bake your brain by inhaling God's green. |
| 0:19.1 | Marijuana. |
| 0:20.6 | I thought you were going to say spinach. |
| 0:22.5 | No, not spinach. |
| 0:24.6 | If you smoke spinach, though, that's a nice experience. |
| 0:27.3 | That's what Popeye does. |
| 0:28.8 | At this point, yeah, if Popeye were around today, he would be vaping spinach. |
| 0:33.8 | So for those of you who have not been listening to and and religiously over the last three years, |
| 0:40.7 | every 420, Anders and I like to smoke a big joint and read some Benjamine. |
| 0:47.1 | And this will be our fourth time or a third time. |
| 0:49.8 | I think third, yeah. |
| 0:50.9 | Okay. |
| 0:51.1 | And it started because I know people are like, what the, why would you do that? Probably are your recent, uh, uh, subscribers who are Mets heads. Yeah, the New York Times bump. Yeah. Um, not Mets heads, Mets fans. Mets heads is such an overused. Yeah, that's what Mr. Met and Mrs. Matt were. Right, yeah. |
| 1:11.3 | Thank you. |
| 1:12.7 | It started because... Although I didn't meet Mrs. Met. Did you see that? Oh, I did. Yeah, yeah. She met Zoran and then met me, and she was very enthusiastic about both. Wow. Some would say... No, she was more enthusiastic about Zoran, but... You know, she's getting paid to tap that way. |
| 1:26.2 | Well, we don't know what she is, |
| 1:27.9 | their expression she's really making behind the mask. |
| 1:30.1 | Assuming there is someone behind there, |
| 1:31.5 | which... I don't think he's ex-Bavsoron, but... You know, she's getting paid to act that way. Well, we don't know what she is, |
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