Viktor is a Loser – Hungary’s brilliant revolution

Oh God, What Now?

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News, Society & Culture, Politics

4.6 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2026

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Good news for a change! Revolting far-right tinpot tyrant Viktor Orbán gets his marching orders in Hungary. Our panel talk about how it’s bad news for Putin, Trump and MattGPT and wonder where the JD Vance Reverse Midas Touch should be applied next. Elsewhere in the pod: Trump comes for the Pope. Why are his Christo-Nationalists getting Catholicism wrong? Is politics being taken over by egomaniacs? A(nother) heated debate about the pros and cons of space. And check out our new theme tune, good eh? Today’s special guest is Ava Santini of Politics Joe. • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Zoë watched Jaws for the very first time and loved it. • Jason recommends Beatles deep-dive documentary Evolver ’62 • Ava is diving into Season 3 of Euphoria on HBO. • Andrew went to see Obscure, the Pet Shop Boys’ rarities shows, where they played these songs. www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Zoë Grünewald and Jason Hazeley. Audio Production by Robin Leeburn. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Should have a little listen to the brand new theme soon then?
0:27.4	Hello and welcome to a slightly different sound than oh god what now.
0:31.0	The politics podcast is here to keep you sane in deranged times.
0:32.1	I'm Andrew Harrison.
0:42.7	On today's show, J.D. Vance, Marine Le Pen, Matt Goodwin, Frank Faradie, R.T., Najel Farage, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, your boy took a hell of a beating.
0:50.9	What will the defeat of the odious far-right poster boy Victor Orban mean for populism across Europe and for the defense of Ukraine?
0:56.1	Plus, some of the dust from the Iran war is settling, but Trump is now planning to blockade a strait that Iran has already blockaded, Israel is still bombing South Lebanon,
1:01.7	an economic tsunami is about to swamp the world, and it's all down to the whims of a few powerful
1:06.8	egomaniacs. How do we allow politics to be captured by egotists and can we rest it back?
1:18.9	Hello, welcome back to the podcast. We're now recording much closer to release time and we
1:22.8	certainly chose the right week to do it. Let's say hello to the panel. Zoe Grunnevold is
1:27.0	Westminster editor of the lead UK
1:28.6	and a regular on Sky Papers Review and political telly in general. Hello, Zoe. How are you? Hello, very well, thank you. Jason Hazley writes comedy, co-created Philomena Conk, among many other things, and plays keyboards to Beth Gibbons out of Portishead. Is there anything he can't do? Hello, Jason. Yes, dancing.
1:43.5	Okay, well, we might make you do that.
1:45.4	And our special guest is the politics editor of Politics Show UK. port his head. Is there anything he can't do? Hello, Jason? Yes, dancing. Okay, well, we might as you do that.
1:45.4	And our special guest is the Politics Editor of Politics Show UK, TV regular and Unrepentantant Evertonian. It's Ava Santina. Hello, Ava. Good weekend for us, actually. Yeah, like, but not a bad weekend for us either. So I'm happy in general. So look, we don't often get good news.
1:59.7	So we're going to milk it this week.
2:02.1	Victor Orban, the Jabba the Hutter far right European. So look, we don't often get good news. So we're going to milk it this week.
2:02.1	Victor Orban, the jab of the hut of far-right European populism,
2:06.0	Vladimir Putin's poisoned pill at the heart of the EU,
2:09.0	the man who ran an electoral autocracy,
2:11.2	repeatedly blocked the EU-A to Ukraine and claimed to be at the forefront
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