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🗓️ 5 August 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán traveled to Texas for CPAC this week. Back home, he’s trying to fight population decline by paying some citizens to have more kids. But a real solution involves one weird trick Hungary — and US conservatives — hates. This episode was reported and produced by Miles Bryan, edited by Matt Collette, fact-checked by Laura Bullard with help from Amanda Lewellyn and Hady Mawajdeh, engineered by Efim Shapiro, and hosted by Sean Rameswaram. Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained Support Today, Explained by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The conservative political action conference, better known as CPAC, returns to Texas this week.
0:05.7	All the usual suspects are in attendance.
0:08.8	I want to ask how many from Texas?
0:10.7	Local politicians.
0:11.9	How many of you from somewhere else who want to be from Texas?
0:15.0	Who loves pizza?
0:16.1	Papa John.
0:16.9	Yeah, who loves freedom?
0:18.3	Who loves freedom?
0:21.3	Well, for freedom wouldn't be no pizza.
0:22.8	Wouldn't be no Papa John.
0:23.9	That's for sure.
0:24.8	And the prime minister of Hungary?
0:28.4	My country is the lone star state of Europe.
0:33.8	Victor Orban was in the house, which is kind of weird because a lot of people point out
0:38.6	that he's like a xenophobic authoritarian.
0:41.2	For proof, check out his ideas on how to get Hungarians to make more babies.
0:45.3	The last 10 years, the number of marriages has doubled and the number of abortions has
0:52.1	halved in Hungary.
0:54.2	It's not a bad start.
0:56.4	Once ahead on Today's Plaint.
1:06.6	Today's Plaint, Sean Ramasser, I'm here with producer reporter Miles Bryan, who really
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