The Two Matts Q&A: Royal visit to the US, Roger Daltrey’s opinions and Italy’s football team
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
The Matts answer listeners’ Easter Sunday questions, including on whether or not the King should be visiting the States, whether the debate around joining the EU will be as divisive as 2016, if we can enjoy The Who when Roger Daltrey is a Brexiteer, whether Scott Mills should have been fired from the BBC, what would happen if NATO collapsed and how Italian football fell from grace. Enjoy! And Happy Easter to all our listeners.
NB: We’re taking a break next week and will return on April 16. Unless anything truly mad happens in between, in which case we will return sooner!
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| 0:00.0 | I do think there'll be a nervousness in the newsrooms of the Daily Mail, the Daily |
| 0:07.1 | Telegraph and the Daily Express to be quite so blindly full on about why Britain should stay |
| 0:14.7 | out of the European Union. |
| 0:17.8 | They have an entirely transactional understanding of NATO. |
| 0:20.8 | They don't see it as a defence of alliance. |
| 0:22.6 | They see it as, hang on, we did Ukraine or paid for Ukraine, but you weren't, you didn't help us with the air bases and now the straight of one was. |
| 0:32.6 | Which is not what NATO is, it's just a fundamental misconception. |
| 0:36.6 | If you went back 16 years and said, you won't see Italy in the next year. not what NATO is. It's just a fundamental misconception. |
| 0:42.6 | If you went back 16 years and said, you won't see Italy in the next three World Cups because they will not qualify. They'd have thought you were mad, but that's exactly |
| 0:47.0 | what happened. |
| 0:51.5 | Hello and happy Easter Sunday, everybody. |
| 0:54.8 | He is risen. Happy Easter Sunday. |
| 0:57.2 | Happy Easter Sunday. I hope you're having a great day. You've got all the chocolate you desire |
| 1:02.4 | and with family would be wonderful and you're enjoying some downtime would be better still. |
| 1:07.8 | This is the two mats podcast from the subscribers of the new world. |
| 1:12.1 | So we'll get straight in. The first question comes from Richard of Gloucestershire. |
| 1:16.2 | It sounds rather kind of... It sounds a bit like Richard the third, doesn't you? |
| 1:20.2 | Yeah, you're very kind of like courtly. Richard of Gloucestershire. |
| 1:25.0 | Richard of Gloucestershire. |
| 1:26.4 | And Richard writes, the government have deployed the King and Queen to the USA in late April. |
| 1:31.3 | What do you think are the pros and cons of this visit under the shadow of Trump's war and his increasingly strange rhetoric about the USA's European allies? |
| 1:40.3 | It's a great question. |
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