Bugle 4148 - Panda Time
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2020
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Andy is joined by Alice Fraser and Al Murray to look at that news story, plus sexy pandas and freakish sentient sea monsters.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:17.0 | Hello, Bugleers and welcome to issue 4,148 of the Bugle. |
| 0:23.0 | We are recording on Friday the 10th of April 2020 news evolving at an all-time record speed. |
| 0:32.0 | Since I began talking approximately 30 seconds ago, economics has been temporarily suspended for the first time in more than 25 years. |
| 0:42.0 | No economics will take place until next Thursday at the earliest, the Dow Jones will bunk off for all of next week. |
| 0:50.0 | London's FTSE will not be allowed to switch itself on. |
| 0:54.0 | The NICA is being forcefully isolated. |
| 0:58.0 | This follows money as a concept losing 36% of itself over the course of this week before pulling itself back together last night after a few drinks in a hot bath. |
| 1:07.0 | But money still down 8% in credibility, a significant but just about manageable decline. |
| 1:12.0 | Another breaking news story, Estonia, has hibernated. |
| 1:17.0 | And no end date. |
| 1:20.0 | These are confusing times. I'm joined from various points around the universe, who are firstly from a long way away in Australia. |
| 1:30.0 | Alice Fraser. |
| 1:32.0 | Hello, Andy. How are you? |
| 1:35.0 | I'm at a quick... let's not go overboard. |
| 1:39.0 | What about you? |
| 1:42.0 | I am slowly losing touch with reality. There's something to be said for doing a daily satirical news podcast and alternate dimension while you have no access to the real world. |
| 1:54.0 | I've been losing touch with reality. |
| 1:58.0 | I've been working on gradually over the past 45 years. |
| 2:04.0 | Also joining us from considerably less far away, in fact just a few miles away, here in London. |
| 2:10.0 | It's Al Murray. Hello, Al. |
| 2:13.0 | Now I'm pretty much convinced this is only happening to me and this is like the most elaborate practical joke. |
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