AI-narrated English editions of the Herczeg Podcast. Fashion designer Zoltán Herczeg's honest, in-depth Hungarian conversations, retold in full for English listeners. Not a summary, but the whole exchange, its ideas and its turns.
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Zoltán Herczeg reconnects with writer Bridget Wagner, an old friend from the Budapest nights of the nineties: a new name, a life in Mallorca, and two hard novels, The Pilot and Longing. It includes discussion of abuse. An AI-narrated English edition of the original Hungarian conversation.
Gábor Vona left party politics at its strongest moment. He and Zoltán Herczeg talk about the drug of power, tribal thinking, the personal encounters that dissolve enemy images, and Hungary as a bridge between East and West. An AI-narrated English edition of the original Hungarian conversation.
Ágnes Vándor, former investigative journalist and book publisher, describes the night she went from atheist to believer in a single moment, and how to live that grace in everyday life. An AI-narrated English edition of the original Hungarian conversation.
Restaurateur Roy Zsidai and Zoltán Herczeg are filed on opposite political sides, yet agree on nearly everything: merit, mediocrity, the missing middle class, and why you must never start a sentence with "the problem is." An AI-narrated English edition of the original Hungarian conversation.
Writer Éva Szentesi tells Zoltán Herczeg how a person becomes a writer, and what decades of carried anger can do to a body. A conversation about illness, letting go and healing, including discussion of suicidal thoughts. An AI-narrated English edition of the original Hungarian conversation.
Balázs Karafiáth co-founded the Sziget Festival, built and sold an internet company, and researched how ideas spread. With Zoltán Herczeg he retraces thirty years of friendship, a collapse into depression, and the slow work of taking the ego apart. An AI-narrated English edition of the original Hungarian conversation.
