The Two Matts
Hosted by Matt Withers and Matt · The New World
4.2from 254 ratings
- 691
- Episodes
- 347
- Transcribed
- 254
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2017
- First episode
- 476K
- YouTube views
About The Two Matts
Join The New World's Matt Kelly and Matt d'Ancona plus occasional guests for weekly chat on politics and media with a side of cultural stuff. A podcast in the spirit of the award-winning New World newspaper - irreverent, witty, surprising, argumentative ... and annoying all the right people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
- Publisher
- The New World
- Category
- government · news · news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 12 May 2017
- Latest episode
- 19 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
347 of 691 episodes have a transcript.
19 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Two Matts Q&A: What is it crypto billionaires love so much about Nigel Farage?
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is AI really coming to eat us all... and how do we stop it?
12 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Two Matts Q&A: Can’t we have welfare AND defence?
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The Two Matts Q&A: What is it crypto billionaires love so much about Nigel Farage?
Published 19 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] But he is. And the alignment between the far right and crypto around the world, yet another example of how their claims to be tribunes of the people is beyond a sick joke, but also consequential because crypto is an attempt essentially to take the power of how we manage our money in the world. It's quite a big deal away from official federal banks and the rule of law, but to occasionally ask for a little bit of spray on legitimacy from the state. So it is complicated and there's a lot of jargon in it. But what it boils down to is this is a massive and dangerous, I'd say, I was going to say libertarian, but it's really anarchic, anarcho insurgency. […]
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- Paul Mason
- James Ball
- Lucy Reade
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- YouTube views
- 475,794
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.2 / 5
- 47 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.1 / 5
- 207 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 66
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Who hosts The Two Matts?
Matt Withers and Matt host the show. Published by The New World.
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