Yeah, I bet it's like "distressed." Anyway, listening to this a second time I realized what this reminded me of--it was something that watchful-entity reblogged a while ago (sadly I think it was on the original w-e blog and thus lost to the world by now) which was a proposed dialogue between two people in a restaurant about whether magic worked. One of them supposedly cast a spell to make the waiter come over and refill her water glass, upon which they put the glass to the side of the table, the waiter noticed it was empty, and refilled it, therefore magic! So yeah, if your expectations are low enough apparently most stuff looks like magic and your life is a whole lot more exciting than people who realize that cause and effect exists.