We are here again in visible and audible form, this is our 99th podcast. I am still advocating for registration, mostly so that our audience, our core group, keeps getting bigger and bigger. You can subscribe to YouTube by clicking on the 'Subscribe' button at the bottom left of the screen, I think everyone already knows this, and if it is turned on on your computer or phone - it depends on what you are using - the notification, you also receive a notification every time after subscribing from YouTube when we upload any new content to the Friderikusz Podcast page. But for those who prefer it, you can also subscribe to us on Facebook. On Facebook, you must first find the Friderikusz Podcast page, and there you will find the 'Follow me' button a little to the right under the header, you have to press it once. And after the service announcements, we'll get down to business. In this year's first podcast, I promised that if we reach 500,000 subscribers, we were at 436-437,000 at the beginning of January, I will fulfill the large number of requests received from our viewers and listeners, that is, we will once again hold a broadcast in which I will answer your many, many questions. At the end of May, beginning of June, in less than five months, we had 500,000 subscribers, 500,000 subscribers, but then current public and political events intervened significantly and we considered it more important to deal with them, but now, now that I have the opportunity to fulfil my promise, we are now at around 520,000 subscribers, and in just one month we have added another 20,000 to our camp, and I would like to thank everyone who takes my request seriously and subscribes or has subscribed to us. Approximately 65-70 questions and answers fit into today's podcast, even though we received nearly 300 questions in total, but there won't be much time to answer more than 65-70 and maybe that's enough. I'm about to start, but our supporters will arrive in a few seconds before that. - And then the questions I received from you and my answers to them will follow. We received the first one from Piroska Szémán: Don't you think it would be better to invite people to the podcasts who hold views diametrically opposed to yours , rather than only those with whom you agree on almost everything? Well, when we started this podcast series, I tried to do my best to have more guests with whom we disagree on a given issue, or I disagree, but I've had to find that on the one hand, those people are less willing to come, on the other hand it is very difficult to draw a line as to what and how much we disagree, which for me is still acceptable, so it had to be acceptable. Because I don't really see the point of spending time trying to convince each other, and at the end we'll probably end up talking to each other. And I specifically don't want to make a show or podcast with people who talk nonsense, for example, they don't believe in evolution or are flat earth believers. But, of course, I am always happy to talk to people who simply see things differently, to return to my previous example, for example, they see the theory of evolution differently than I do. In any case, the goal would be a meaningful, educational and entertaining conversation, this is what we keep in mind when choosing a topic and a guest, and we don't particularly examine the worldview of our guests, I can say this because of that. Next question from Lívia Pusztaházy: If so, how do you decide: rather a well-known but moderately interesting guest who is expected to generate a lot of viewership, or an unknown guest who, on the other hand, does not promise outstanding viewership, but what he talks about is very interesting? Today it is completely clear, of course I choose the interesting unknown rather than the known, uninteresting, because I do not claim, and of course I could not deny, that it is not good if many people watch and listen to us, but today it is not it is our first, not even second, consideration when choosing a topic and a guest. Next question from Kevin: What was your first job and why? Well, I had to take on my very first job when I was still a high school student because my father was convinced that training for work should start at the age of 14-15, this happened sometime in the first half of the seventies, and with this momentum I was placed at a horticulture company during the summer holidays , where I was an assistant to the professional park ranger a kind of auxiliary park ranger, which meant that in the first half of the working day we pulled weeds from the grassy area of a large park, and when I was done, I picked up dirty, discarded tissues. Well, it wasn't anything exciting, but it was still work, and I could say that at least I worked during the summer. Then, over time, I was also a newspaper deliveryman, because at the same time they made such a stupid rule at Magyar Rádio, I worked there at the time, that you could only be an outside reporter if you had a full-time job alongside it, so it seemed to me that the simplest solution was to work as a newspaper deliveryman, since it had to be started at three-thirty or four-thirty in the morning, ideally you finished by nine in the morning, and then you had the whole day to practice being a reporter. Of course, there was a problem with me as well, namely that as a newspaper carrier I often finished by noon, because I stopped to talk to people on the way to whom I delivered the newspapers, but I came across interesting stories, and then of course I told the time. The fourth question came from Samu Zákonyi: How can you continue your work if the results are not immediately visible? My experience over many years is that no matter what one starts, the results come slowly in the beginning. Usually the results come very slowly. Basically, you need a strong motivation to start something and continue it. However, if we have great faith in what we have started, we will get results even if the results do not necessarily come at the beginning. For example, when I was a beginner on the radio, I did a program in a way that my bosses at the time didn't particularly believe in, since that particular program didn't generate a lot of listeners, so I didn't even get a fee for it, until the idea turned to fruition, but that didn't discourage me, and in the end, life still justified me. So my advice is that when you start something new, that is, at the very beginning of the process, gather all the arguments to be motivated enough to continue, even if the road to get there is not smooth. Another question. Ákos Oláh: Do you think it is conceivable that with the quality of today's media content, TV programs like the Friderikusz Show, the Friderikusz Talk Show, or Én mozim could be made about thirty years ago ? I honestly don't think it's possible for several reasons. On the one hand, today, and for the past 15 years or so, programs or types of programs taken from the West are unfortunately copied one by one here, allegedly even the dialogues of soap operas, and they do not care that these successful Western programs should be adapted to Hungarian conditions. On the other hand, I can only think of two people from today's TV presenters who have such diverse personalities that they could create such a personalized show. One of them might be Tilla, but as I see it, she is tired of TV2 program production, where she hosts all kinds of shows indiscriminately, and the other could be András Hajós, but when he got the chance a few years ago, he unfortunately finished above the bar , i.e. it turned out to be too good. He, for example, would be great for such a task. And then the third reason why, for example, the Friderikusz Show could hardly be done again today, there are very few exciting domestic stars, I hope that no one is offended by this who could be invited as a guest to such a show, and there would be little money for foreigners. Sometime three years ago, by the way, the idea came up at RTL, they even offered me a chance to try the Friderikusz Show again, but after a few days of thinking, I said no, because I realized the other, mostly personal lack of circumstances, so I won't go into detail about them here. The following question came from Zoltán Leiler: Sándor, do you like the 500,000th subscriber as much as the hundredth? And you and your staff celebrated the 500,000th subscriber a few weeks ago which is as rare as the white raven among Hungarian YouTube channels with a serious theme ? I think so too. Well, it's always good to win and to be popular, but to be honest, I don't feel much difference between 100 and 500 thousand, more precisely knowing that we have such a huge audience is really a good feeling. We celebrated it and after that some went to Azahriah Puskás' concert at the stadium, as far as I know. And unfortunately I wasn't home that week, so I could only be there in spirit, but I heard a lot of good things about this particular concert. Dóra Kovács asked two questions: 1. How do you prepare for your guests: are there phases that always have to happen, or do you always improvise? 2. What makes a question good? What makes a podcast exciting in the end? When we decide in the editorial office what topic should or should not be a podcast, so once we have the topic and the guest, two of my colleagues help me find the sources from which I can prepare. By the way, I often get involved in this phase myself, in the search for material. I invite all the guests, without exception, so I do not use any kind of assistance, because I think I can really tell the invited people what I want in the conversation. I'm not saying that it was always like this, but the more you learn and know about this profession, the more you simplify the process. Then I prepare for the recording with so-called basic questions, but this means no more than 15-20 % of the questions I actually ask, the rest is dictated by the course of the conversation, so there is quite a lot of improvisation in these podcasts, but for the improvisation, of course, there is a lot of preparation, during the resource collection phase information must be collected. And what makes a good question? Well, I don't think there is a really good recipe for this. A good question must be original, but the originality must come to some extent, or perhaps as much as possible, from the personality, i.e. the podcaster or the reporter. I'd rather give an example, in the case of a guest engineer dealing with artificial intelligence, the wrong question would be what kind of future he predicts for artificial intelligence, because maybe it's too general. However, it is better to ask the question, to what extent should we be afraid of artificial intelligence, and to what extent will it serve us, how would that particular specialist determine the ratio? I may have answered the question with that. Here comes the next one from Miklós Gereben: Is there a quality difference between your guests, so who do you consider a good guest and who a less good one? As many guests, as many types, that's the first thing I say, but this way I know I haven't said much. A good guest, at least for me, or in my opinion, is someone who speaks well, doesn't moan, doesn't stray from the topic, so he listens to the question, answers that and only that, and even says more or less original things about the given topic. At the same time, if you forget that this is an interview for many people, and not just two of us talking, then you will definitely be considered a very good guest. Next from Iván Szeifert: Have you thought about the fact that after three years the view and the room decoration will be replaced? My main obsession is to replace the previous set every three or four years, so I've been thinking about it for quite some time now, of course, although I have to say, the majority of our staff strongly discourages this. But to make it good for me too, we will do experiments already in the autumn, but maybe this will not lead to the final change of scenery, it will only be a small modification, we want to use a special scenery for certain topics, that's all we are talking about. Gábor Juhász asks: Have you thought about to publish your podcasts uncut? At the beginning, we really planned that we would not talk about a recording, but live, but when we made the six or seven trial podcasts and presented the raw, therefore uncut version of the same conversation to a small focus group, and then the cut, if I remember correctly, 91 in percentage terms, the cut won the favor of the focus group. Since then, I have also gained 98 broadcast experiences, and I have come to the conclusion that cut conversations are incomparably better and faster than completely uncut ones. For example, it sometimes takes minutes for most guests to find the real answer to a question, and these minutes are frankly uninteresting, so they are always left out of the final version, for example. I'm not saying that this is true for all podcasts, but for one-third of them, the cut material is definitely two or three times better than the raw recording. And without mentioning any specific names, I have to say that you would be very interested if we published the raw footage of one or other of our guests after the cut material and at least I don't see any added value in that, which some channels do , that is, the uncut version of the same conversation will also be posted in exchange for the cut and separate payment. I hope I answered the question. Anita Orteli mentioned that in the second conversation with Azahriáh , in your opinion, things should not happen prematurely. On what basis can it be determined what should happen when? Well, according to my memories, I could have said this to Azahriáh mostly thinking about property acquisition , because I find that among twenty-year-olds they want everything right away, an apartment, a car, a few tens of millions in the bank account, while in my own life, or from my own life I saw that certain things should not happen before their time either because if the joy of acquiring is quickly eliminated from a person's life, there will be nothing to motivate them later. And if I think about it, this is true not only for acquiring, but also for building a career, and maybe it is true for most things. Katalin Csomós asks, she also asked two or three questions: Do you think Hungary will succeed in catching up with Europe in the next ten years? Is there a person in your life whom you look to as a kind of advisor, mentor, whose opinion you trust, and perhaps ask for their opinion in case of doubt? Do you know or like to cook? Let's go in line! If you are asking about the standard of living, I don't think that Hungary will be able to catch up with Europe in the next ten years. Just a few days ago , Eurostat, which is the statistics department of the European Commission, updated its statistics on last year's per capita consumption data. Based on this, we Hungarians spent the least on consumption in 2023, which means that even the Bulgarians, who were considered last until now, have overtaken us in this regard. On average, we Hungarians spent only 70 percent of the EU average on consumption last year while the per capita consumption expenditure of Bulgarians was 73 percent. As a result, we can be happy if we once reach the consumption average of the EU, let alone that of Austria. Then Katalin Csomós's other question was about whether there is a person in my life whose opinion I ask and trust. At least three such people come to mind first, with whom we have been friends for many, many years and whose opinion is important to us. As for cooking, I can't cook, nor do I really want to, because I regret the time it takes, and I would never be able to cook to the same standard as the quality of food I receive and order. So I don't have to deal with that anymore, I think. Bálint Nagy asks : In the case of podcasts, do you draw ideas from the work of domestic and foreign content producers? Is there any online content you follow? Are you satisfied with the current situation of the podcast genre in the domestic media market? Of course, I regularly scan the podcast market, domestic as well as international, and I find many good topics, many good ideas here as well as in the wider world. To be more specific, I regularly watch, for example: mindensegit channel named, here two young men discuss many important topics , mostly with smart experts, but I really like ELTE's YouTube channel called Atomcsill, for example, I especially like to listen to the lectures of the extravagantly-looking astrophysicist Ágnes Kis-Tóth or I regularly watch them Csaba Bogos from Pécs, very young journalist-reporter's political expose materials. Among the foreigners, I regularly follow Lex Fridman's excellent, multi-hour talks, from which I also target subjects, although mostly in vain, but I also like Tim Ferriss' podcasts, so I like many of them very much and follow them regularly. Ákos Reiner asks Why is it necessary to familiarize the audience in detail with the biographical data of your guest in three or four minutes at the beginning of each conversation? Because I assume that even if we get a kind of overview of the background of the given guest, even in headlines, it will be a point of comparison or starting point for how we should look at the person and his/her opinion on the topic in the conversation that follows. Therefore, we will summarize the life of the person sitting here in three minutes, or rather less, in two minutes. Judit Huszár also submitted six questions, if I count correctly, these are lightning questions. 1. Do you hold a grudge? 2. If you could replace roles with anyone for a day, who would it be? 3. Who are the people you value? 4. Have you ever watched even a single movie series? 5. Does age affect you? 6. Do you usually give gifts: to whom and on what occasion? Do you ever do charity work? What do you support wholeheartedly? Let's go here in line. I don't hold a grudge until the first disappointment, but if the person serves me, I will definitely cut them out of my life, and after that, interestingly, I won't be angry with them anymore. I would trade it with anyone for a day if I could wake up in my own life again the next day. I am interested in everyone's life, maybe not just for a day, but then, no matter how much I like the borrowed life, I would still rather find my own. I hold a lot of people in high esteem, some for this reason, some for that, but I wouldn't start listing them, because it would take a long time to explain and explain why. Of course, I watched a lot of series when I was a child, but that's not very common nowadays, sometimes I watch one or another during the day and get stuck there. For example, 4-5 years ago, I remember watching Big Little Lies, maybe that was the title of an excellent series on HBO but then maybe because of the oversupply of series, I already passed it and I don't watch any series very much. My age? Well, my age doesn't concern me at all, since I don't consider life above all else, precisely because of where I am right now, where it is given. That's it. I usually forget about festive occasions, I rarely give gifts at that time, but then I give gifts relatively often without any special mention and almost always of greater value, because my basic idea is that what I don't miss anymore, might give or can give a big boost in the life of the recipient. Of course, this does not mean that I pass on my discarded belongings to others, but I think that way, that it should be a big gift from time to time, even without saying so, because if that person needs it, it will at least come in handy. Another question from Pálné Hajdú: Why don't you invite Pisti Veréb to your show again? A lot of things happened to him, both bad and good, I heard. I think if you want it, you can achieve it. Anyway, I'm always surprised when we add to our channel's archive various characters from my former TV shows with exciting fates, and many of you don't assume that I, or we, are also interested in that person, what happened to them in the ten, twenty, or thirty years since the shooting. What's more, many people strongly encourage us to visit these people, but they no longer assume that this thought might have crossed our minds, but there must be a reason why we don't present the person's current life. Well, as for Veréb Pisti, well, he is like that too, the former kid with a fantastic sense of humor and big business has grown up, of course, we found him, but he no longer wants to be in the public eye, for which there is certainly a reason. He claims that he likes to live peacefully, he is a successful entrepreneur, that much we know, but he doesn't want to be surprised anymore, so I can't talk him into another conversation, even though I try from time to time, I swear. Rózsa Schmidth asks: Are you satisfied with the viewing results of your podcast, with this current program production, does life make you happy at all? The results of our viewership and listening are truly beyond our imaginations. The average viewership of our recent conversations is 577 thousand per broadcast, our average listenership is 141 thousand per broadcast, but at least two of our shows have more than two million views, and our ten podcasts have between one and two million views and listeners, so I can continue to brag. I could actually be satisfied with this even as a podcaster of a large country, where the population is many times ours, well then as a content creator in Hungarian! I think the big TV channels would lick all ten of their fingers if they could claim viewing results close to this. And where does our budget compare to theirs? So this platform is perfectly enough for me, but how much life makes me happy is another question. As I often say, I am a melancholic creature who can only feel happy for seconds, and not very often. Márton Bukovits asks: If you could talk to your 18-year-old self, what would be the only advice you would give him? Maybe not to care what other people think about you, you will mostly lose in life if you want to conform to others, and besides, most people don't care at all, they just like to interfere in other people's affairs. Just take care of yourself and don't be afraid of anything. That would be roughly my advice to my 18-year-old self, which needless to say, I didn't know at 18. Kornélia Révai asks: What is the biggest animal that you could defeat with your bare hands? That's an excellent question, but I've never thought about it before, maybe because I'd never have fight with any animal, even if the need arose, I think I'd run sooner. Let's say that even this would be a big challenge for me nowadays, I think, so it's better if I stay at peace with the world and don't meet these kinds of animals. Szepesi Imola: How can you keep your private life? Well, by not talking about it publicly. Many years ago, an older colleague of mine advised me to keep my private life to myself, because once I open that door, I will never be able to close it again, and I have been doing so for about 40-45 years. Of course, this always comes with the fact that some people speculate, but in many cases these legends based on speculation are so stupid that even when I read them, I can only smile at them, except when I go against the wall. Péter Zilinszki asks: Why don't you answer the questions of viewers and listeners live? I don't see what it would add to the whole thing if I were to answer the questions live here and now. In that case, for example, many technical tricks could not be used, the subtitles of the questions might not be able to appear as accurately, and so on, and the appearance of the podcasts is also very important to me, not only the content. But this time it's not the case that I matured my answers for a long time, but I read the questions once, then I sit in front of the camera and answer them in a neat order. So there is no big difference between the two. Gabriella Somogyi: I feel that I have learned from my mistakes and I already know them, yet I make them again and again. What do you think can be done to make a real difference? My guess is that if you keep making your previous mistakes, you haven't learned enough from them yet, I say this based on my own experience. On the other hand, there are times when we understand a problem, but we can't do anything about it, I'm like that too, not infrequently. But it is already a big word that a person recognizes his mistakes, and the next step is to learn to deal with them. I don't recommend that you learn how to deal with problems or mistakes from some kind of life book. I really don't believe in the real effectiveness of such manuals. Zorka Gyarmati asks: I would like to know what you usually do before going to bed. With your permission, I wouldn't report on everything, but maybe I've mentioned it before, I'm a very late riser, before three in the morning, I go to bed very rarely. I try to stick to the 3-2-1 rule, of which I mostly fulfill three and two, i.e. I don't eat or don't eat much three hours before bed, I stop drinking two hours before bed, drinking water of course, but one hour sleep before I just can't turn off all the blue lights, i.e. the electronic gadgets, even though it's supposed to be done. However, I always read a little before falling asleep, and I watch TikTok first, while it doesn't come to my mind all day, and also before falling asleep I like to read a classic book, i.e. a book printed on paper, mostly poems. Regardless of all of this, or together with these, I usually sleep well for six to seven hours a day. Beáta Ilkovits: When you were young, did you have the feeling that you would one day be very successful, so was that encoded in you? In my experience, almost everyone has a false sense that they are somehow more special than others, but this may be because everyone knows themselves much better than others, and this deeper self-knowledge can create the illusion that I am more than others , but of course this is a false feeling. As for success, when I was a child, until I was 12-13-14 years old, I thought of myself as a loser, because I endured quite a lot of hesitation. To be honest, I didn't have any early talent, in fact, the head of the Nyíregyháza radio station at the time, where I worked at the time, made it clear to me several times that this career is not for me, but if it occasionally put me off or discouraged me, the next day already I tackled the so-called proof procedure with renewed vigor and I can say that the results came organically after persistence, a lot of work, and the will to change. Tamás Pápai: Have you ever thought about the possibility that well-known and respected individuals like you might have a chance - with the support of the masses - to radically renew the current political system? I mean, it can be felt that there would be a huge need for credible people in politics. So don't you think you should play a role in this way? I certainly don't think so. After all, politics is also a profession that needs to be learned, even if a lot of dilettantes take part in it these days. In my opinion, credibility acquired in other professions is not enough, as it does require specialist knowledge. In addition, in Hungary, of course, this is just my opinion, Fidesz pushed politics and politics to such a depth that if anyone started to deal with it, and their person was deemed even a little dangerous on the other side, they tried to disable that person by all means . Therefore, I think that there is a self-centered person nowadays, and he will not be a politician in Hungary for quite some time. Borbála Kerepesi asks: Your podcast primarily features intellectual guests, scientists, researchers, foreign policy and national security experts. Have you not thought about ordinary, successful people as well, could they be invited, surely their life stories could also provide many lessons? Well, the questioner touched our soul, because in these weeks we are thinking about the content development of our podcast, which of course does not mean a particularly big change, but still a little. And yes, we are thinking in this category as well, so for example going out into life, where we could talk to everyday people about certain topics. Then a well-known colleague and I are thinking about regularly publishing her films about very human stories on our channel . Then there is a series that actually affects everyone, it will be roughly similar to our six-part generation series that was shown this spring and was a great success, but we plan to publish this new series that affects everyone only from next spring, around next spring. So there are plenty of ideas, and I'm especially the type who doesn't rest, so once I've had a series of shows, it's barely a year or two, and the next one has to come, and then we'll see if it runs from our energy, let's say . Klára Zalavári, are you liberal or conservative? She nail the question for me. Well, if this hadn't become clear from the 98 podcasts so far and from the antecedents, then I'll say what won't be a surprise, I think I consider myself a liberal, but if I want to, so sometimes I'm a conservative, a liberal, or a liberal conservative, which roughly it can be called the view that is made up of conservative and liberal elements, and in which principles and values are combined from both the liberal and conservative sides. They consider this to be a progressive and progressive view and I consider myself to be something like that. Endre Takács asks: What do you think is the advantage of loving work? If you have a job you love, you can have perfect freedom, I kind of think so, and I don't know if you have noticed it, but there is a certain - shall I say this - dignity in all work done with passion. That's enough of an advantage, isn't it? Veronika Szemere: Do you ever lose focus during an interview? Only in the event that the guest, the subject of the report, misbehaves a bit, I mean that he deviates significantly from the subject, in which case I also fall out of rhythm, and in the meantime I am racking my brain over how to get it back to its original state, but if the guest is good and the majority are like this, definitely like this, then I go along with him and constantly learn from him, especially from scientists and experts, and I don't even notice that this is not a simple conversation between two people, say in a press conference, but an interview. Tibor László: What do you think about the podcast as a genre? Well, if I have to define this, I usually say that there are two major directions, or I see two major directions within the world of podcasts. One is the podcasts made in a relaxed, friendly tone, in a tabloid-like presentation, such as TheVR, or the Jólvanezígy podcast, every weekday. The other direction is for more serious conversations, let's say, next to our podcast, I'll list "Mindensegit"! podcast, I already talked about it, or the podcast "Élet meg minden", there are also great conversations, serious conversations, as well as Edina Potyondi's weekly journalistic monologues updated on Tuesday mornings. So you can choose any direction, one thing is certain, the most important thing is to keep the quality high in the Podcast, both in terms of the guests and the content of the dialogues. I see this as the most important foundation of the podcast. Dr. Károly Steiner asks: Have you ever thought about moving from Hungary? Well, what a denial, sometimes I think about it, maybe two or three years ago I started to look at where I would like to settle, but somehow I always come to the conclusion that despite the circumstances, I still feel the best here. Although I could also ask how I know, if I haven't tried another place of residence, I'd rather say that this is what I think. Ottó Kovalszki: What do you think about electric cars? I try to keep up with the times, so I also changed my 12-year-old car to an electric version about half a year ago, and since then I feel like I'm driving a spaceship. So I admire and love it very much. Emília Vitrovszky: Many years ago, I read somewhere that you were on the stock exchange, are you still on the stock exchange, and what about bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? I don't trade much anymore, at least not directly, at most through investment funds, and as far as bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are concerned, I'm standing at the starting line, that is, to try it, I'm pushed in this direction by some kind of intuition, but when my mind gets the better of me, it doesn't allows me to go in this direction, suggesting that there is no product or service behind it, just a piece of paper, or even that, you shouldn't go into that. I know, I should leave my sanity behind from time to time in order to try, for example, the world of crypto, but for now I'm afraid of it, and I don't know how the future will turn out. Réka Matyisák: I have collected a few well-known people, would you describe them in one word or sentence? Endre Kadarkai, Zsolt Osváth, Kriszta D. Tóth, Noémi Orvos-Tóth, Imre Csernus, László Palik, Egon Rónai, András Somogyi. Endre Kadarkai is an excellent soul diver, almost not a reporter, although he is a bit out of style for my taste, but he is definitely capable. I don't know Zsolt Osváth. Kriszta D. Tóth, I would be unable to have a conversation, let alone an interview, without looking at the subject, or only very rarely. This car genre, if I remember correctly, was originally invented for singing on CBS by James Corden in his own show, but I think it is at least very daring to transfer it to conversation, although I am probably not right at all when I talk about it this way, because a jury of journalists almost all considers D. Tóth's program Elviszlek as the talk show of the year . So of course this also works, just not the way I like to make conversations. Noémi Orvos-Tóth, I know who she is, but I don't know her work thoroughly enough to have a well-founded opinion about her. Levente Lakatos, I don't know his work at all. Dr. Imre Csernus, I only followed his work up to the point where he was yelling at his patients on some TV show so I stopped there. Ervin Nagy, a good actor, a very good actor, I'm sorry that he is more excited today by this unfortunate version of politics in our country. László Palik has a special questioning attitude, he constantly brings his own experiences, memories and examples to the fore, which must be taken care of, because it can become chronic over time, not that I was free from such things, but fortunately when I was still an immature young foal. Egon Rónai is an excellent public affairs reporter. András Somogyi, if possible, then Tibor Bödőcs. Marietta Zsíros asks: Why are certain comments and contributions deleted? Because I'm saying, and I'm going to be very direct now, no, as if I haven't pretended that this is my house so far, so behave decently when someone comes to me, that is, if someone wants to join the Friderikusz Podcast community, then certain rules must be followed to keep And if someone behaves uncivilized, we are not willing to tolerate it. Maybe I find it more annoying than average to have to deal with such things, but it is more important for me to maintain a positive mood and buoyancy. Reluctant people who, for example, describe others as ugly, or who cannot express themselves, even in their native language, but have a poor vocabulary to describe our guests badly, we make them truly invisible to others with a single click. Of course, this does not mean that we would also delete the criticisms formulated with a sane and improving intention, there are plenty of them very nicely, we reserve normally formulated negative opinions on our site, because you can learn from them. But the point is to be able to behave. Well, we're going to take a break here, our supporters will post their messages of a few seconds, and then I'll continue answering their questions. - And then I will continue answering your questions. Miklós Kornai: Haven't you thought about how you could be a little less diplomatic with your guests, i.e. perhaps you could make the podcasts more relaxed? So that they are not interviews, but irregular conversations. When the topic allows it, I try to relax or unwind, but the fact is that after 40-50 years of interviewing practice, the transition is somehow not so easy, because I unwittingly bind myself to the basic rules of my profession, I think. In addition, I am not sure that if I were to start, say, more relaxed quackering, which I definitely would like to do from time to time, so I am not sure if the camp of hundreds of thousands of viewers and listeners would take it as well as the maybe somewhat tied form. So the transition is not easy, I can say in answer to the question, but there is an effort, that's all I can answer diplomatically to this question, the rest will be seen. Vilmos Dézsi: Do you think we are doomed? Does anything even make sense? Nowadays it's all about the end of the world and hate. How do you see it? While I myself am rather pessimistic, or rather melancholic, I agree with the questioner that there is a bit too much cynicism and negative emotion in the world these days, although I have to quickly add that, and you can read serious studies about it, this is especially for those people impression of those who spend too much time on the Internet, all kinds of research have now come to light. I often warn myself that it might be worthwhile to be a little more present in real life, to connect with like- minded people, and in this case, perhaps it is easy to realize that there is still a lot of value in the world beyond online. But there is indeed a lot of negative news, the series of events tends to point in that direction lately, but I am not sure that this feeling is not caused by the expansion of the mass media. At the same time, I also come across a lot of stories, and this is part of the overall picture, which all proved to me how versatile and adaptable people are. For some reason, we always manage to answer every challenge, and that's great. Attila Magyar: Do you remember? Of course, you remember the slogan that was spoken in your voice at the beginning and end of every Friderikusz Show in the 90s : "This show would not have been created without Kontrax". I can even say that. Do you know that you have created an independent form of marketing with this sentence? I studied marketing, at that time our teacher, who was also the president of the Advertising Association, devoted a separate chapter to this sponsorship formulation. How did this sentence come about? Who invented it? Were there doubts, opponents, supporters? Oh, well, that's a very interesting story, I hope I remember it correctly. The Friderikusz Show started on January 23, 1993, we recorded the first complete broadcast a few days earlier, and the sentence indicating the particular sponsor had to appear at the end of the broadcast at the end of the cut. We were already at the end of the cut, however, the agency that the sponsor, this certain Kontrax, commissioned for a lot of money to come up with a catchy phrase, was not even able to come up with a catchy slogan in three days. In order to speed up the process, because we were running out of time, I went to the agency, one of the owners of Kontrax was also with me and again we went on for hours. this was the sentence that this show wouldn't have been created without Kontrax, guys, let's come up with something like that. Zsuzsa, one of the owners of Kontrax, immediately pounced on it, found it perfect and accepted the sentence. Three people from the agency were present, for understandable reasons they didn't like it very much, but in the end the owner made the decision, so we came to the end of the difficult birth. Unfortunately, at that time I was not yet as conscious or enlightened as I would have liked to immediately defend this - as you put it - marketing formula, which I have often heard used for various purposes in the past 30-32 years . Márta Popper: Why do you quote others so often in the questions you ask your guests? Why not come up with your own thoughts? I could even say that quoting people who are much smarter than me on a question does not, in my opinion, detract from the value of the question, but seriously, here it is a question of the fact that the credibility and thoroughness of a question is greatly supported, especially in political or scientific discussions, at least in my opinion in my opinion, if a person quotes others, thereby proving, even if unspoken, that not only I see the given question as I do, but also that other people previously had the same opinion about what we are currently discussing, and thus gain momentum, or if I like it, it lends credibility to your question. I see it this way. Tünde Sajó: Please recommend two books for the summer that have had the greatest impact on you lately. I have several offers, but I can definitely mention two and recommend them to you. The first would definitely be Salman Rushdie's book "Kés", a bit bizarre, so at first hearing, and so is the story, but great writing. Perhaps many people know that almost two years ago, the world-famous writer Salman Rushdie was preparing to give a speech about writers persecuted for political reasons in a small town in New York State, when a religious fanatic attempted to assassinate him, stabbing him 15 times in 27 seconds, if I remember correctly. and cut wounds on him. Rushdie miraculously survived these stabbings, but suffered permanent injuries, including the loss of his right eye, and the book The Knife chronicles this horror and the physical and mental recovery that followed. The author talks in it about the weeks he spent in the hospital, the difficulties of returning to everyday life, getting back on his feet, and even holds a dialogue with his assassin in his imagination. So it's a very, very good volume, a very, very good book, I recommend it for reading. And in order to recommend something more pleasant and yet meaningful as another volume, although the previous book is also a masterpiece in its own right, I recently finished reading the book Cigar Smoke and Vanilla, which is written in a very special way and contains scenes from the love of Leni Riefenstahl and Béla Balázs. Béla Balázs, the acclaimed and successful writer, meets a young woman in a nightclub, who is none other than Leni Riefenstahl, the most celebrated film director of the Nazi Third Reich, and the first internationally recognized female director. It is an all-consuming attraction, and this man, Béla Balázs, a communist, travels to take part in the creation of his love's first film, risking his reputation and career. Of course, their relationship could be fatal for both of them, in addition to the sweeping ambitions of Riefenstahl, the woman who won Hitler's patronage in a Germany drifting towards war Dóra Szűcs, yes, filmmaker Dóra Szűcs elaborates the love of these two very different people in movie-like scenes, this is also a great read, so I strongly recommend it for the summer. Gréti Gyenesei: I read that a few weeks ago, an agency assessed which YouTube channels were the most popular among Hungarian seniors, i.e. people over 55 and you were the first here as well. Congratulations! Thank you very much. As far as I know, this was a representative survey of the Be Social Agency, I also read it, and if I add to this that the most popular Among the YouTube channels, according to this survey, we beat the brilliant comedian Tibor Bödőcs to second place, not to a small extent, by 10 percent. The third most popular YouTuber on the same list was Edina Pottyondi, the fourth was Partizan, I'm sorry, I don't remember the others. In this regard, I looked at the dashboard of our YouTube channel, and who would have thought that our viewers over the age of 55 make up 28 percent of our total viewers, the 45-54 age group 25 percent of our total viewers, the 35-44 age group 21 percent of our total viewers, the 25-34 age group 15 percent, finally the 18-24 age group 6 percent, and the remaining 5 percent is divided between the 13-17 age group and the over 65s. So, I want to say from this long line of numbers that more than 60-65 percent of the active age group follow us regularly, and this is very good news for us, which I would like to thank everyone for. Emőke Gáspár asks: How did you develop and develop your vocabulary and speech so that you can express yourself so clearly and selectively? I haven't been told very often that I express myself clearly and selectively. I could say that, on the one hand, it is a genetic gift, an inheritance, but if it is true that reading can greatly improve vocabulary and expressiveness, then this could be a meaningful part of my answer. The other explanation for what Emőke Gáspár is saying is that I read a lot every day in the office, in several parts, but in total about 7-8-9 hours, which certainly improves one's speaking skills. Gergely Csongrádi: What has changed in you? For example, have the eating habits after your interview with gastroenterologist Dr. Richárd Schwab or did your attitude towards younger generations change after your podcast with generation researcher Krisztián Steigervald? Well, unfortunately, I did not find Richard Schwab's method and advice applicable to me in many respects. For example, I was unable to eat half a kilo of vegetables a day after two weeks, so it largely fell on me. This reminds me of the fact that many people have asked where Dr. Schwab can be reached, well, the doctor orders at the MIND private clinic, but so to speak, it costs quite a bit if you want to eat healthy. As for the young people, I accepted the generational recommendations of Krisztián Steigervald, and the most I can say about this matter is that I am moving in the direction of getting to know and unreservedly accepting the youth but I don't trust Krisztián with everything myself, sorry for that. Zita Herczeg: What do you think of Japanese food? Oh, it's also phenomenal, downright phenomenal, and there are one or two fantastic Japanese restaurants in Pest. Last time, László Krasznahorkai allegedly invited me to the best sushi restaurant in town, which, if I remember correctly, is located in a basement, so at first it sounded quite bizarre, maybe somewhere on the outskirts of Óbuda, it is run by an older Japanese, original Japanese man, who does not know a word of any language except Japanese in another language. Supposedly, at first glance, this place can be compared to a free kitchen, only without unpleasant smells, well, I can't wait to go here with Krasznahorkai, who promised that if I don't like it, he'll hide in shame, and we'll see. In general, I am a big fan of international cuisines, and in this regard, I think Budapest is a very good place, because there is a large selection of them, and you can eat a lot of delicacies all over the city. Ákos Szemenyei: Why are you so subjective, especially in your political interviews, why don't you try to be more objective? Many people are concerned about this question, which is why it's good that someone brought it up here. Well, my answer is that this is the Friderikusz Podcast, not state radio or state television. Objectivity could be called to account on them, and objectivity should be called to account, because if I look closely, for 14 years, there is not even a trace of this in the state media. But here on YouTube, since it's a small private channel that bears my name, the opposite should be held accountable, that is, if I'm not subjective enough. I am convinced that we are followed by hundreds of thousands, not even one or two million in one case, because many people are curious about what I think about this or that question. In the spirit of this, I can promise a lot of subjectivity in the future, and I apologize in advance to those whom I will disappoint. Next, Ruba Magdolna asks: How do you maintain your curiosity even when the given topic does not particularly interest you? I have to say that every topic that is included in the Podcast is because I am particularly interested in it. And my curiosity does not have to be maintained in an artificial way, it operates from within, because I want to know everything about everything, so there is no such topic that I am only moderately interested in what comes before you. What they see here, what we talk about, comes from within in the sense that it serves my interest, or my interest as well. Bálint Debreczeni: Don't you sometimes feel like your head is exploding from the amount of information you constantly have to take in and process? How can you organize all this and make it yours permanently? I don't feel like my head is going to explode, it's more like I'm constantly learning and still growing. After an interview, believe it or not, I make a kind of small notes about the given conversation, so I don't have to remember the whole thing, it's enough if I just take these notes from time to time and emphasize all the information in this way, especially if in a subsequent conversation I need it too. By the way, that's how I read books and novels at the time, my father made me used to what I really didn't like at the time: after reading a book, I would write a three-to-four page summary of the content, characters and what I got out of the given book. after reading a volume, so that I only have to turn the pages over time, because this way the content of the given book and its message will always be easily recalled . This method worked, so I can say later and I will use it. And speaking of forgetting, the best way to memorize is not to repeat a particular thing, but to recall it again and again and use it, if you understand what I'm saying, but in the light of the above, I hope you do. Gábor Szalóczi: What were your most harmful traits and misconceptions, when you were younger, and how did you overcome them? The first thing that comes to mind is that I was a child with a terrible lack of self-confidence, I already referred to this in the first part of the show, or in the first part of today's Podcast, this almost morbid lack of self-confidence characterized me until my young adulthood, in almost all areas, except radio broadcasting, where I started all this , I'll say the first stage there too, but it was more characterized by a lack of self-confidence, and then something always gave me new strength. I often thought of a sentence by some great man who also lacked self-confidence, which somehow sounded like you need undeniable proof that you are who you say you are. That is, and this is already part of the advice, so how to overcome a harmful trait, if you want to be confident, then collect evidence and grow your impostor syndrome. Imposter syndrome is a feeling of inadequacy that many people experience even if they are otherwise successful in their field. In such a case, those involved may feel that they do not deserve the success they have achieved and that they are not as talented as others. So my advice is, one word is more than a hundred, make it so that you can present something that validates everything you live for, everything else drowns in self-delusion and brings self-doubt. The fact that I constantly tried it helped me a lot in this new things and tried to leave my comfort zone often. That's all I can say as advice. Annamária Diósi: What is your mission with this podcast series? I wouldn't call it a mission, but perhaps a passion. To talk to people with an exciting destiny or who think in a unique way about exciting topics or their lives and to learn as much as possible from them, to understand myself better, perhaps to understand the world better, and what I say may be cliché, but it is still there, and what is also good, I don't have to answer to anyone, no one interferes with what I do, not even advertisers, so I just follow my instincts and my curiosity. This would actually be my goal with the podcast series. Aida Radics: How long did it take you to get used to the cameras? I've been trying this lately, and I'm amazed at how lame you become immediately when you have to speak in front of cameras. If it helps, I can say that it was difficult for me at the beginning too. By the way, the biggest challenge is monologuing when you are face to face with the camera, like now, for example, talking to others or recording during various activities is much easier in my opinion, but sitting down in front of a camera and giving my opinion about something is really not an easy thing , but it is very important to practice, for example I have heard such an example, to answer the questions asked by ChatGPT in front of the camera, this method is used in certain schools, because in today's world we can get involved in such a situation quite often. In job interviews and other situations, we may be forced to talk about ourselves in a video, and it certainly doesn't hurt to have some practice, so it's worth practicing. Tibor Francia: How many days and how many hours do you prepare for the conversations with your guests? I pay special attention to his questions, mostly he always asks questions that I am also curious about. The preparation usually takes three days, but not strictly speaking, but rather loosely, it should be imagined in several stages. Of course, this also depends on how knowledgeable I am in the given topic, or how foreign it is to me, or how well I know or don't know my arriving guest. More recently, several topics have been put on the agenda, in which I had absolutely no idea about the given area, of course I have to prepare more for these. This is the minimum if viewers and listeners devote hours to listening or watching our podcasts. My goal is that not only I get something from a conversation, but also you who follow, watch and listen to us. Eszter Jakab: Where do you get your information from? I read daily newspapers online, Telex, HVG, Portfolio.hu, and so far also 444, but in agreement with my colleague Bartus' call the other day, I will cancel my subscription to 444 in the next few days. I read Válasz Online haphazardly and very rarely the Index out of a sense of adventure, and among the weeklies I definitely read Narancs and HVG, and there are one or two more. Among the foreign newspapers, I like to flip through the translations of Time and Newsweek, as well as the Atlantic magazine. Well, that's about it. Gábor Kalocsai: I ask you: how can you stop drinking without missing out on parties and getting to know others? Although I don't have a lot of experience on this topic, on the one hand, I am a big supporter of voluntary sobriety, that is, when someone decides in advance not to drink for weeks or months I have friends for whom it worked, for example. The other is that if you always have to drink in order to feel good with certain people, then it is not certain that you should meet them. Maybe it's worth looking for and finding the company of people with whom you can get along without drinking. I'm not a big social person, but when I'm in a group, being there is always more important than necessarily drinking. It is not advisable to drink just because, according to my experience, you always lose a little bit of your confidence when you drink. Jenő Szikora asked the following question: Did you see that after you presented Tamás Vitray's Magda Vitray on your own YouTube channel last spring, Vitray also got interested in making a podcast after you , he did a few conversations, but that stopped a few months ago? What do you say? Of course I saw it, I see everything anyway, I usually say, and I follow Tamás Vitray's YouTube channel, Vitrayek, but I don't know why it stopped after just a few broadcasts, since it produced pretty good views, as I watched, on average followed by 20-30
thousands. Preparing for this occasion, I clicked on the Vitrays and was happy to see that Tamás Vitray resumed his YouTube appearance after a four-to-five-month hiatus. Irén Miszlay: How many of your guests become your friends after meeting them? During my life, I met many thousands of people, I had a lot of subjects during my fifty years of career, but I became friends with few of them. Although most of my friends are professionals, there are few among them who have become my friends from my subject. Of course, there are examples of this as well. Of course, there was someone who was first my role model, then my rival, maybe it's an exaggeration to describe it that way, and finally he became my friend? But this is not the same as what our viewer asked. Zorka Zentai: What do you think about the fact that many people are now starting to create podcasts? Yes, I see it, I experience it, but it's really good that the selection is getting bigger and bigger, it's especially good for viewers and listeners. Of course, it is a kind of satisfaction for me that, if the question refers to this, that I got into it three years ago, when this genre was just spreading its wings , because that way I could be a member of the pioneering team, but of course I also started just for a bit, and then what a great love it turned out to be of it, right? Máté Berczeli: While you have dealt with Péter Magyar in several of your podcasts, why didn't you find it important to invite him personally? When Péter Magyar appeared in public life a few months ago, I even had the ambition to ask him personally, but after he gave interviews one after another and I saw how time went by, he answered more and more irritated questions that he didn't like, and even sometimes ordered those forums to his young colleagues, who, in Péter Magyar's opinion, are spreading untruths about him, while what can a young reporter do about the possible behavior of his employer, so to be honest, I didn't have much desire to sit down and talk to him directly, and watching him from this distance, so many things became clear to me out on the go, that maybe the image I formed of him wouldn't be nuanced even if I asked him directly. Of course, if it is possible to have a proper dialogue with him, I would not be against the meeting, but for that the parties at all times must respect each other. I think this is the starting point in the case of a private conversation, well then in the case of a public conversation! Right? Bereczki Hajnalka: Before the start of your podcast, you also gave an interview to Nők Lapja in the spring of 2021, and in that interview you mentioned Richard Dawkins among the guests you planned to invite, and I have been looking forward to this conversation ever since. Any chance of that happening at some point? We have several foreign guests in our crosshairs, but perhaps I don't need to say, it is not so easy to get in touch with them, and even if we do get to them, making an appointment with them for a more extensive conversation is particularly complicated. Then, even if one of these selected foreign guests is willing to participate in the conversation, there is still the language difference because I am not at all sure that the given podcast would be as interesting with an interpreter as when we can understand each other directly. This belief is confirmed, for example, by the conversation with the foreign guests who appear on Partizán's channel from time to time. These are not watched too much. But as for Richard Dawkins, we're in touch with him, and if we're persistent enough, I'm sure Hajnalka Bereczki won't be waiting for him in vain. Mariann Szőke: How do you balance between correcting your mistakes and remaining human? Perhaps this is one of the most important questions in the field of personality development, which I have already asked some of my guests about, because it is one thing to strive for perfection and continuous development, and another thing to deal with the fact that we are actually human, fragile and imperfect. I think the first step is to realize that this is a huge task, and you can only achieve results with the right humility. I can only recommend my own method. When brushing my teeth in the evening, I always think about my day from this point of view. I'm not saying that the balance is always in balance, but if I maintain control every day, sooner or later we can balance ourselves, that's what I'm saying. Péter Legéndi: Where do you see yourself in ten years? I've always been good at phasing, that is, dividing my life into stages, say 5-10 years, and tailoring my plans to them. Well, I'm not sure that this podcast will still be around in ten years, not just because of my age, but what I do know is that I want to be comfortable in my own skin ten years from now, and if I'm still sane, I might share that with others. In what form is a big question, but I hope that even then I will be able to move with the times and find the currently cool form of expression. Zsigmond Kereki: I am a woman, and I realized that all my role models are men. Do hormones matter that much? I don't think it matters, but for some reason I also see that at the moment there are a bit more men who are considered role models, or who are truly exemplary in the global sense of the word. But I would be very happy if, for example, we presented more, much more ladies, either from the role model category or from another category. Zsigmond Kereki would also have a bigger selection then, and everyone would. So we strive for it, sooner or later we will find the right ratio. Valéria Lázár's question is also related to this: Why is it that you mostly invites male guests to your podcast? And this is not only the case with you, but the viewer experiences this in many other podcasts or TV shows as well. You're right, we're in denial, we've noticed this mistake for quite some time, but we don't have an acceptable explanation for it, and while we always decide to look for a female expert on a given topic, by the time we get there, we can get by with a male guest as well. So we have no excuses, sorry for that, but we will try to change the practice, I promise. Gábor Tótkomlósi: Didn't you think about occasionally dealing with religious topics, because if I've followed you correctly, you haven't had such a topic in your podcasts yet? Religion was touched upon tangentially with one or another of my guests, but it is true that we did not deal with this topic separately. Well, the fact is that in my childhood, and this probably stems from this, in the narrow environment in which I was brought up, I only encountered a bigoted and somewhat alarming form of religiosity, which provoked a strong antipathy in me, but this gradually changed in me as time went on, and I have already started to open myself, at least I find that I have opened somewhat in this direction, especially because perhaps I realized that it would be a mistake to ignore the wisdom carried by different traditions for thousands of years, even if one is not religious . Sooner or later we will also come to religious or religious topics. And then the last question. Borbála Száraz asks: How can you let go of the pursuit of perfection as a young person? How can we enjoy our youth without desperately wanting to be successful at work, in our relationships, and in our physical and mental development? I think it's different for each individual, so if you like it, it depends on the personality, that is why I only dare to be careful, it is certain that striving for excessive optimization and turning inward instead of living our lives can be a mistake, especially when you are young. Many people do more harm to themselves by wanting to be perfect all the time, even more by wanting to look perfect than by letting themselves be imperfect. I think you should live when you're young, when it's worth experiencing things first, so that you know what you want and what you don't, but I'm almost certain that it's worth being conscious of life, and in the meantime, make time for fun, relaxation, and special time for development and growth. Don't be too hard on yourself, I say. If the basic direction is in place, a little relaxation, a little crime, as they say in fashion, can and should be included. If you routinely and regularly conduct introspection and tend to face yourself, traps and pitfalls can perhaps be avoided. Well, that's all I could say to the question of how to let go of perfection as a young person. I could elaborate on this, but time has passed, I think that's enough of the questions and answers for now. I hope that those who asked received satisfactory answers from me, and those who were left out now, there are quite a few of them, they will be answered in the future, I promise. The next 'I ask, I answer' type of podcast will be when we have 600,000 subscribers, so we are now at 520,000, so we have time, but I urge you to come as soon as possible. This is the occasion, and we would also like to encourage you to join and subscribe to us, either here on YouTube by clicking on the 'Subscribe' button located slightly below the left of our screen, but you already know this by word of mouth, or on Facebook, but there the 'Follow ' button must be pressed once. I will also tell you about our summer schedule, but before that our supporters will say goodbye in just a few seconds. - So, since the summer has started, we also slow down a bit from the work pace, and we don't come up with new content and fresh discussions every two or three weeks, but only once a month, the next time is expected to be on July 25th, and then at the end of August towards the beginning of September. I tell you, this is our plan, but if I do it, extraordinary events justify it, of course we come up with new conversations in such cases as well. In the meantime, I would like to offer you our archive, which contains pieces of work from my former television activities, numbering more than 300 parts, and we will continue to increase this number in the summer. Here you can find everything you like from the last thirty years, for example many of my reportages from the show Én mozim, but there are also lots of details from episodes of the Friderikusz Show and Friderikusz Talk Show, or complete programs, from entertaining class meetings of famous people, then the former "Surprising and Funny" they can also choose between the very funny mock interviews of my show , or they can also see the 6-8 year old characters of the series "Gyerekszáj" again. And those who want more serious content can also watch the great lectures of the physics genius Béla Lukács again or for the first time with the help of my conversation, so that the young Viktor Orbán can also be compared with today's. And I recommend it to your special attention, because I am also proud of my conversation with Hitler's godson, Martin Bormann, in the 1990s. And I say, in the summer we will continue to increase the range of my archive materials. All of these can be found in the sixth horizontal line of the Friderikusz Podcast page on youtube.com. And then we will have a new conversation on July 25th, until then and after that I wish you a pleasant summer.