The new world order is revealing itself
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
The Matts pick apart the extraordinary events of this week and make sense* of what they mean for life on planet Earth in the second quarter of the 21st century. What is Trump up to? How can Europe react to a threat from a NATO member state? What is the future of Greenland? How is it connected to a future territorial dispute in Siberia? And what straight line can be drawn from the horrific murder of a 37-year-old woman on the streets of Minnesota and the abduction of the Venezuelan president? 2026 has started off in remarkable fashion … and it looks like continuing this way for the foreseeable. Enjoy.
*Sense isn’t really the right word. It’s more like making a (possibly futile) effort to divine some sort of logic in a wild pattern of behaviour from the most powerful man on the planet. You’ll just have to bear with us.
Produced by Matt Withers
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| 1:34.8 | Happy Thursday and happy New Year, everyone. |
| 1:36.9 | Happy New Year. |
| 1:37.8 | Hope 2026 is working out well for you so far. |
| 1:41.9 | We're back. |
| 1:43.4 | We're back. |
| 1:47.3 | It's a joy to be back. As is the news. |
| 1:57.3 | Anyone expecting a quiet beginning, a sort of slow on-ramped, 2026, sorely disappointed. |
| 2:03.9 | It is. And listen, we should explain to our dear listeners that we've got some new plans for how we're going to operate in 2026. |
| 2:06.6 | Exactly. |
| 2:07.4 | What we're going to do, folks, is we're going to do a regular, long podcast as ever on |
| 2:13.2 | a Thursday. |
| 2:14.2 | We're going to do our popular Q&A on the Sunday mornings, as usual. But we're not |
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