Viktor Orbán: The B-Side (PREVIEW)

**June Sternbach** (0:00)
I don't know how long you've had them, but in the background of your camera, I'll just see the random babies you have around.

**Josh Boerman** (0:06)
Yeah, the baby.

**June Sternbach** (0:06)
Yeah, you have more than just that baby, though, let's be honest.

**Josh Boerman** (0:10)
I think you have two babies.

**June Sternbach** (0:12)
But I had to counterbalance this. I went to a little art fair recently. I got a little demon. I got a little demon guy. Oh, that's cool. That's a baby of my own.

**Josh Boerman** (0:20)
Nice.

**June Sternbach** (0:20)
So I'm trying to start a collection of little ceramic demons.

**Josh Boerman** (0:24)
Did you ever show me my golden pig?

**June Sternbach** (0:26)
No. Oh my God.

**Josh Boerman** (0:27)
So I've got this golden pig that I also, is one of my items that I just kind of can have on my desk. But the best thing about my golden pig is I can squeeze him.

**June Sternbach** (0:35)
Oh, a functional golden pig. Oh my God.

**Josh Boerman** (0:38)
He oinks. So that's exciting.

**June Sternbach** (0:42)
That's really great. Honestly, the only thing I can think of whenever I see anything gold is just a golden egg from the Melania documentary. I was reminded of it recently with the, did you see the-

**Josh Boerman** (0:53)
The soft bank thing. Yeah.

**June Sternbach** (0:54)
Yeah.

**Josh Boerman** (0:56)
Yeah.

**June Sternbach** (0:56)
The goose was laying the golden eggs. I have not been able to stop thinking about the gold. The goose equals value.

**Josh Boerman** (1:05)
Goose does equal value.

**June Sternbach** (1:07)
Goose was not value.

**Josh Boerman** (1:09)
I hate it when goose is not valued. And I, but I love recording a B-side and we are back of course for your bi-weekly B-side.
Thank you everyone for putting up with us because we had sort of skipped another week again.
Things have been so busy for both of us. We are doing our level best to maintain our weekly schedule. But you know, it's tough. With that said though.

**June Sternbach** (1:32)
But now, but now, you know, this is, you're getting the golden egg of the Patreon content.

**Josh Boerman** (1:40)
This is what I picture our listeners is sounding like. But when they see the new episode.

**June Sternbach** (1:48)
That's what I do whenever I click the link to start recording. I get so excited. I start honking.

**Josh Boerman** (1:53)
All I can do is oink at that time. Also tickets for our live show still available. Should throw that out there right now.
You know, we are a week away now. It is this coming Thursday at Lincoln Lodge. Once again, that is July 2nd. And once again, tickets are, there's a link to get those tickets right in the show. If you want to get those notes, click that damn link. We'd love to see you.

**June Sternbach** (2:18)
I am probably going to post it on socials soon. So get those before I blast that out.

**Josh Boerman** (2:24)
That's right.

**June Sternbach** (2:24)
Everywhere else.

**Josh Boerman** (2:25)
Because then, who knows if you'll even be able to get a ticket anymore.

**June Sternbach** (2:28)
Exactly.

**Josh Boerman** (2:29)
My God. Anyway, yeah, this is what ended up being, for our B-side again, what we'd like to do is talk about the subject matter a little bit of the past week's main feed episode, read additional mail from the world famous mail bag about it, and also just catch up on either things in the main episode that we weren't able to talk about or we read an item or two that has something to do with natalism more broadly. But this time around, we saved something extra special for you just for the B-side, which is a deep dive into the United States' biggest hungry pervert, a man named Rod Dreher.

**June Sternbach** (3:09)
I cannot wait to talk about this guy.
I've known about this guy for probably close to a decade now, just like how odd he is, his weird writing, the weird shit he sadly does coin and become a notable term here and there, one of which we'll be talking about. But yeah, he is heavily intertwined with Hungary, especially under Viktor Orbán. He's sort of joined at the hip of Viktor Orbán. We'll talk a little bit more about that after we get to some mail.

**Josh Boerman** (3:40)
Sorry, I was drinking water.

**June Sternbach** (3:42)
Yeah, but the world famous mailbag.

**Josh Boerman** (3:44)
It is. So this time around, I actually grabbed four emails from the world famous mailbag. We've got an extra chunky mailbag this week.