"2024 Thinking the unthinkable"
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 57 minutes
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How bad can it be? Well… pretty bad is the answer. 2024 is shaping up to be a seismic year in so many ways - but the Two Matts aren’t all doom and gloom (just mostly). Will the 14th Amendment change the course of US history? Will Keir Starmer find the recipe to restore trust in politics? Will the West sell Ukraine down the river? And how can we start to step forward to a solution in the Middle East? It’s a big show this week with lots to think about - tune in and let us know what you think at 2matts@tnepublishing.com
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dancona. And this is the two mats for the week |
| 1:00.9 | ending January the 5th. The first podcast of 2020. 24, yeah. What year it's going to be? It is, |
| 1:06.7 | isn't it? What did we talk about, Matt? We talked about a variety of apocalyptic scenarios. |
| 1:12.4 | Try to inject a little bit of a little bit of wit and fun and, you know, hope into the otherwise |
| 1:18.2 | despairing landscape. But I think we kind of concluded that if maybe the salient characteristic |
| 1:24.4 | of the year ahead is going to be just the sort of the scope of the possible. |
| 1:29.5 | Yes. |
| 1:29.9 | It was the unthinkable. |
| 1:31.2 | Well, this is the theme, isn't it, that what a few years ago you would think was unthinkable has now become very thinkable. |
| 1:38.6 | Maybe that's the type may. |
| 1:39.9 | We should call it that. |
| 1:41.2 | 2024. |
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