New Year’s Eve & Terrorism

Matt D’Elia Is Confused

Matt D'Elia

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 December 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

In this episode Matt reflects on the unbelievably shitty year we all had, the desperately-needed money the government chose not to give us, and some of the absolutely batshit post-election rightwing conspiracy theories currently flying around on social media, including the ones concocted in response to the terrorist attack in downtown Nashville on Christmas Day (which just so happened to be carried out by a guy who unsurprisingly believed in many of the aforementioned absolutely batshit post-election rightwing conspiracies theories.)

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0:00.0	Not to theelia is confused. This is Matelia
0:20.9	aka M Diesel, and high.
0:29.3	Christmas has come and past, And I like that.
0:37.1	I hope everybody that celebrates Christmas
0:39.4	had a good Christmas, and that you, like me me are happy that Christmas is now over.
0:47.0	No panics for me on the gift receiving side. The last episode I talked about how receiving
1:00.7	gifts is hard for me because I tend to overthink my reaction to them before I even receive them.
1:10.0	So it's like I panic about wanting to make sure the person giving it to me
1:15.0	thinks I like it before I even get a chance to like it or dislike it. I worry about
1:20.4	this because even if I dislike it I want them to think I like it so
1:23.4	usually what happens is I get a gift and I do like it and my natural feeling is
1:29.1	that I do like the gift that I was given and I feel love and appreciation for the person who gave it to me and from the person who gave it to me and yet still
1:40.5	my reaction is like feels like some artificial bullshit and like I can't get it outright
1:46.2	even if it's an actual appreciation on my part. Anyway, I have psychological problems so, but the good news is that didn't happen.
1:55.8	This Christmas, all gifts of mine were received, I believe, with just sort of a general
2:02.4	low-grade anxiety, but not specifically because the gifts
2:04.8	were being given just because I have that low-grade anxiety in life every
2:09.7	single day Christmas or not. But now that that's over we got New Year's Eve coming up and I'm I hadn't thought very much about how because I never think about New Year's Eve and people who think a lot about New Year's Eve.
2:30.0	And people who think a lot about New Year's Eve are, even when I did like socialize a lot and party a lot and drink a lot. Even in those days I thought I didn't like New Year's Eve.
2:49.6	It's just it's it was always just too much and there's so much expectation to have a fucking great time to have the best time.
2:57.0	And it just never is fun and then it takes seven hours to get home you know so the fact that
3:06.1	it's so much expeditions never as fun as it's supposed to be and it takes seven
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