Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy
Oct 1, 2026 · 1 hr 42 min · 13 segments
Original Air Date - October 10, 2024 Author Brendan O’Neill joins Bridget to talk about his book, After The Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and The Crisis of Civilization. They discuss the aftermath of…
Brendan O'NeillGuest
Bridget PhetasyHost
I guess I agree, like, my tendency, I'm 40, almost six, my tendency has been to, you know, mock this and kind of sneer at it a bit and be like, well, maybe, I always used to say, you're not woke, you're annoying.
I think post-2020 was when I really saw, you know, chill young kids burning down their own cities.
And... vandalizing stores in the name of capitalism as evil and looting in the name of... we've been colonized and they've been looting from this kind of eye for an eye mentality and torching small businesses.
I knew it was a dangerous place to go, but really seeing that kind of violence that springs from that ideology of revenge and grievance and...
Uh, frustration, and I actually do think weed, I know that it's, like, a very unpopular opinion, but I do think that you will see a connection over the years of the rise in weed and this kind of, like, complete falling apart of society.
So one thing that I did have the luxury of witnessing as someone who smoked from the time that I was 13 to 35 was how strong the weed got.
And one year I went to Coachella and I kept calling it agrochella because I was like, what is in the weed that everyone is so mad about? And there is something kind of aggressive about the new strains of weed that I do see.
Because everybody, in 2020, when they were all marching and protesting and rioting and looting, whatever form that was, everyone really just wanted to get out and smoke weed together.
2020 was a huge turning point in all this mad politics because it Well, firstly, it's worth remembering that it was the lockdown.
I guess I agree, like, my tendency, I'm 40, almost six, my tendency has been to, you know, mock this and kind of sneer at it a bit and be like, well, maybe, I always used to say, you're not woke, you're annoying.
I think post-2020 was when I really saw, you know, chill young kids burning down their own cities.
And... vandalizing stores in the name of capitalism as evil and looting in the name of... we've been colonized and they've been looting from this kind of eye for an eye mentality and torching small businesses.
I knew it was a dangerous place to go, but really seeing that kind of violence that springs from that ideology of revenge and grievance and...
Uh, frustration, and I actually do think weed, I know that it's, like, a very unpopular opinion, but I do think that you will see a connection over the years of the rise in weed and this kind of, like, complete falling apart of society.
So one thing that I did have the luxury of witnessing as someone who smoked from the time that I was 13 to 35 was how strong the weed got.
And one year I went to Coachella and I kept calling it agrochella because I was like, what is in the weed that everyone is so mad about? And there is something kind of aggressive about the new strains of weed that I do see.
Because everybody, in 2020, when they were all marching and protesting and rioting and looting, whatever form that was, everyone really just wanted to get out and smoke weed together.
2020 was a huge turning point in all this mad politics because it Well, firstly, it's worth remembering that it was the lockdown.
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