In this Holiday Spectacular, Matt catches listeners up on life since the Halloween Special—settling into NYC, solo traveling to London, and navigating dating in a new city.

He reads listener-submitted Holiday Scaries, covering everything from hooking up with your crush at the holiday party and surviving Christmas shopping to handling political differences with family once the wine starts flowing.

Matt also talks about the importance of gay representation in TV, how one very hot show unexpectedly got him into hockey, and how coming out helped him stop people-pleasing and care less about internet opinions and hate comments.

The episode wraps with updates on The 29 Project and a preview of what’s coming in Season 2 of The Scaries Podcast.