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The Two Matts

The Two Matts Q&A: The fall of Orbán, Corbyn and Kanye West

The Two Matts

The New World

News, Government, Politics, News Commentary

4.2577 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

The Matts tackle listeners' questions, including how positive should we be about the fall of Orbán, why is Corbyn polling zero percent, is the collapse of the Wireless Festival a good thing, would they welcome Nicole Kidman at their deathbed… and what opinions do they hold which would alienate the most Two Matts listeners?


Produced by Matt Withers


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0:00.0

If we are going to join a new European Union, we can't do it on the basis that half of the population is just wrong about immigration.

0:12.0

I think we now know that the Board of Peace is just like a golf club for Trump, isn't it?

0:19.0

It's his UN for when he leads office.

0:28.6

My answer to be truthful about when will the next time I can guarantee you, if I'm lucky enough to be alive to see it, if it happens, would be a landing on Mars.

0:36.6

Hello and happy Sunday, everybody.

0:38.6

Happy Sunday, one and all.

0:40.2

I hope you're having a great weekend so far.

0:42.0

This is the two Matt's podcast brought to you by the subscribers of the New World magazine.

0:47.2

Do join them.

0:48.2

First question comes in from Snowy in Bedford.

0:51.4

Is Orban's Fall the beginning of populism in decline? Well, it's a very well-phrased question

0:57.5

that, because it doesn't say, is it the end of populism? So it's a, so he's kind of phrased it

1:04.0

very astutely. And the answer, I mean, yes, it's very significant, shows there's nothing

1:09.6

inevitable about populist victories,

1:11.6

which I think is important because we tend to fall into patterns of thinking that, you know,

1:18.1

history has a direction and things are inevitable. And, you know, it's no more inevitable that

1:24.2

MAGA and reform and Fidesh win then it's inevitable that progressive parties win.

1:31.3

That's not how it works. And it's nice to be – I mean, it's a very minimum. It's good to be reminded

1:36.0

of that. It's great that he – Peter Magyar in Hungary is going to have a two-thirds majority,

1:42.8

which means he can start hacking away all the terrible constitutional reforms, Auburn made.

1:48.1

There's a smooth transfer of power, no January the 6th. Good for the EU and Ukraine. It will dismantle a quite significant sort of infrastructure that Auburn had set up of think tanks and CPAC,

2:05.4

the conservative group in America, was funded by it. So yes, it is. I mean, what it doesn't mean

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