The year so far (Spoiler alert: It’s worse than we could imagine)
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 5 April 2024
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
How time flies when the world is on fire… a quarter of 2024 has already passed and the Matts check global progress against their expectations at New Year. It’s a grind reality check as Gaza and Ukraine go from bad to worse and Trump appears to be gaining ground on the White House. On the upside, there’ve been a bunch of cultural highlights to provide welcome distraction - not least the publication this week of Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan. “It’s like Bonfire Of the Vanities… but better” says Matt d’Ancona. Enjoy!
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| 0:56.5 | journalism. Hello, I'm Matt Kelly. And I'm Matt Dan Cona. And this is the two mats for the weekending |
| 1:01.4 | Friday the 5th of April. What did we talk about, Matt? Well, we talked about the, we look back in anger |
| 1:06.5 | stroke joy. Yeah. More anger than joy. More anger than joy. We did a kind of Q1, quarter one |
| 1:13.2 | audition of catch up, yeah. Catch up of where we were because we, you know, we agreed at the beginning |
| 1:16.8 | of the year this is going to be, was going to be a big year and it has been. So we covered some of the |
| 1:21.4 | big themes. But we also talked about the joy of culture and football in the last three months. |
| 1:27.0 | And I think that, you know, it led me feeling the last three months and I think that you know |
| 1:28.1 | led me feeling rather cheerful good I think the first half is a bit of a tough |
| 1:32.9 | listen but then the second half is a is a good listen and reasons to be cheerful |
| 1:36.7 | part one yeah yeah yeah lots of good tips for things to to enjoy so this is the |
| 1:41.6 | two mats episode 39 39. Please do enjoy. Enjoy. |
| 2:07.3 | So Matt, how is 2024 playing out for you so far? |
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