András Kepes, who has been on the field for 50 years, was the first guest of Telex's Most ávök show, and on his 75th birthday, his new book titled I Was a Cat was published.
During the conversation, the former TV personality stated, among other things, that in his opinion, "in the Kádár regime, the state media had more intelligent leaders, the current government is only interested in its own pockets, solidarity was cultivated from the people,
and society is characterized by apathy and hopelessness".
He then added that he would stay at Metropolitan University until he could say what he thought of the world.
"You have to live where you can annoy yourself the most"
During the program, Tamás Fábián, a Telex journalist, said at one point that as he watched the work of András Kepes, he found that being Hungarian was a determining factor in the life of the former TV journalist. He recalled that although the former presenter lived in several foreign countries and spoke several languages, he always returned home to Hungary.
Kepes reacted to this by saying that his foreign friends repeatedly suggested to him why he did not stay in that country, because "he could find himself there too". He then went on to say that he has a theory that
you have to live where you can annoy yourself the most, because that means it's important to you".
He then used an interesting analogy. According to him
"Hungarianness is like malaria, once it gets into a person's blood, it stays there."
Here he noted that he had several friends who lived abroad from a young age, say in the United States after '56, "but as soon as they started to grow old, their hearts drew them back to Hungary".
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