Andy's Random News Balls
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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Josh Gondelman and Anuvab Pal for an episode bursting with chaos, tangents, and stories so random they feel algorithmically generated.
As Andy prepares to fly to Australia for The Ashes, the big question is: is he even slightly focused? The evidence suggests no.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, buglers and welcome to issue 4,361 of the bugle, the universe's most reliably unreliable source of fact, anti-fact and everything in |
| 0:24.2 | between. I'm Andy Zaltman, coming to you from the Northern Hemisphere before I reverse polarity later |
| 0:29.3 | this week when I head south to Australia for the cricket. It is the 17th of November 2025, |
| 0:35.7 | as this troubling century crinkles onwards through the early fumblings |
| 0:39.4 | of its second quarter. And joining me to scientifically analyze everything that is going on in the |
| 0:44.7 | universe now, then, and hence, and or to talk about a carefully selected wodge of news stories |
| 0:49.5 | from this week. Firstly, from Mumbai, it's Anuvab Pal. Hello, Anuvav. Hello, Andy. |
| 0:55.1 | How's Mumbai working at the moment? |
| 0:57.6 | Noisy, I imagine. |
| 0:59.1 | Yeah, well, lots of construction noise, but that's what we call a Monday. |
| 1:05.6 | That's never a problem. |
| 1:06.9 | But something mad has happened in Mumbai, Andy. |
| 1:10.1 | I was driving my wife to an appointment she had, and our car was stopped. |
| 1:18.0 | And we asked what the problem was. |
| 1:20.2 | And they told us, the American comedian Conan O'Brien is playing cricket. |
| 1:25.6 | And those words are exactly as they sound. |
| 1:28.9 | We got out of the car and the American comedian Conan O'Brien who's slightly taller than |
| 1:34.8 | most of the Indians around was playing cricket on the road for a TV show in cricket |
| 1:44.0 | test match white outfits. |
| 1:46.1 | And I figured I should mention this because it's so many worlds colliding |
| 1:49.4 | specifically for you, Andy, that I thought that this should be mentioned. |
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