This week's Two Matts Q&A: Deference, Piers Morgan deepfake and Tracey Emin
The Two Matts
The New World
4.2 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 1 March 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The Matts answer questions from listeners, including whether or not the age of deference is dead; is Trump going flat; is Farage just like Thatcher; why doesn’t NATO repel Russia; what does a deepfake of Piers Morgan say about the future; and is Tracey Emin right about museum and gallery funding? Enjoy!
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| 0:54.6 | The flair wasn't there this time. |
| 0:57.4 | No, I agree. |
| 0:58.8 | The Trump carnival flair was not, was absent largely. |
| 1:02.3 | And I wonder whether he just feels he's not quite as a hundred percent certain of himself as he was. |
| 1:09.7 | So when Zayay Yussef says churches shouldn't be turned into mosques. |
| 1:14.6 | What he's really saying is he's making an appointment about the great replacement theory |
| 1:18.6 | and Muslims coming in and all this stuff. |
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| 1:39.2 | First question comes from Frank in Sunderland, and it's a short one. |
| 1:42.5 | Is the age of deference dead? Well, I thought it was, |
| 1:47.8 | but you've made me think otherwise, Matt, actually recently, which is the sort of deference of the |
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