Marijuana & Bruce Springsteen

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2021

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Matt discusses the horrifying domestic terrorist attack that took place in Georgia earlier this week, and breaks down one of the major reasons there’s been such a massive uptick in hate crimes against Asian-Americans over the course of the last year. (Hint: the guy who coined the race-baiting term ‘China Virus’ has something to do with it.) Other topics Matt covers in today’s episode: what happens to our brains as we get older, what it really means to be ‘middle aged’, the exact age at which we technically become ‘old’, all the ways the world is trying to make Matt hate Bruce Springsteen even though he has always loved Bruce Springsteen, the Biden administration’s absurd firing of several staff members for smoking marijuana (even if it was legal when and where they did it!), why it’s ok and in fact necessary to make fun of / criticize Joe Biden now that he’s the president— and, lastly, Matt expresses confusion about why there are so many 90s songs about homeless people, and wonders whether these songs were exploitative or just a strange trend he will never understand. (He also sings some of the songs.)

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Mattelia's Confused. This is Mattelia aka Mdzo. And let's talk about this
0:27.4	week. Well, that's going on. I'm still just personally on the personal side of
0:33.1	things. I'm still fucking trying to move. Nobody's letting me do it. Trying to
0:41.0	fucking give people money. Nobody wants to take it. I know I said this sort of
0:45.4	moving during COVID instead of fucking pain in the ass. But so is almost
0:52.4	everything else. So what's the big fucking deal? And who cares? Way bigger way
0:59.2	crazier and way worse shit going on the world than that? Speaking of bad shit,
1:04.0	might as well start with the worst shit. And there's nothing fun or funny about
1:10.8	this. This is just a thing that's in the news that is unavoidable. If you've
1:15.0	been paying attention to the news at all, or even not the news, just on social
1:22.4	media, understandably everyone's talking about it, a tragedy happened this
1:28.9	week. If you don't know, I don't want to tell you need to get your head out of
1:32.5	your ass. You're living under a rock. Remove the rock. There was groups
1:40.0	together. There was there was a there was a domestic terrorist attack. A man
1:46.0	and Atlanta man. A white guy in Atlanta whose name I'm not going to say I don't like
1:55.3	it. That there's a part of me that when I read about this fucking shit and I read
2:01.3	the person's name and I see the person's face while I understand its news,
2:05.5	everyone does need to know. But there's something about the oversharing of the
2:09.6	name and the image of the guy's face. And it always is a guy. In this case,
2:16.8	what a surprise. It was a guy. What a surprise was a white guy. But I don't,
2:25.5	you know, because part of me, it's the kind of thing that perpetrating an act
2:31.1	like this, any kind of violent act, any kind of terrorist act, any kind of
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