Denzel Washington & Strasbourg’s Dancing Plague of 1518

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Matt speaks at length about why Denzel Washington is the single greatest actor of all time despite consistently starring in truly horrendous films— and then provides a roadmap for how directors can make these movies less horrendous moving forward. Which opens up into a breakdown of Mr. Washington’s latest horrendous film (in which he yet again gives an astoundingly great performance)— THE LITTLE THINGS. Also in this episode, Matt discusses the very confusing but endlessly fascinating ‘Dancing Plague’ of 1518, and explores the experiences of a small but growing handful of people who have finally seen reality for what it is and abandoned their belief in the QAnon conspiracy theory.

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0:00.0	Not too young. Hello and welcome to Matelia is confused this is Matelia
0:19.6	aka am Diesel and I haven-DZO episode in a little over a week.
0:27.0	Last week, I had a guest for the first time in a while.
0:31.6	I'm going to start having guests again, at least more often than I have in the last year or so. I kind of got into a fucking groove with the solo episodes and I'm going to still keep doing
0:45.1	them but I'm going to start having guests more frequently and probably hopefully
0:50.1	start doing more than one episode a week again.
0:55.0	I guess we can start with what's going on in the world now that Donald Trump's gone kind of opens us up to talk
1:08.1	about more shit the pandemic still fucking going on obviously and talk about that plenty moving forward and there will be
1:18.6	Politics still swirling on as a topic in general as shit comes up that is interesting that is of interest or
1:27.2	funny and fucked up and confusing whatever but um but yeah I'm finding myself less and less deeply disturbed by the news every single day,
1:39.1	just a little bit less, like the edge has been taken off.
1:41.4	The news is still fucking terrible.
1:45.2	Don't get me wrong. The news in the world is still terrible and maximally confusing and almost always
1:57.1	exactly backwards from the way it seems like it should be. But the edge, the little like finger in the eye, the cherry on top that sets us all over the edge and makes
2:06.4	us fucking mad. Mad as in crazy, not angry, though I'm sure as if I'm a good example of how a person feels has felt over the last few years,
2:20.8	mad has been a part of it as well. But I guess just like general world
2:25.6	topics. I'm going to start with the Game Stop thing. And here's what I'm going to do about the GameStop thing.
2:34.6	I can read a hundred more articles about it.
2:39.5	There's just something about the stock market and like hedge fund the ways they operate that I'm just like
2:51.3	I'm a fucking idiot about it.
2:56.4	Like I just can't I can't get it. I can't I'm just like oh
3:01.4	oh what? I'm just like, oh, oh, what though?
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