Carney Trumps MAGA, and we explain Pete Hegseth

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Andy Zaltzman, Mildly Informed, Satire, Tiff Stevenson, Test Match Special, The Gargle, John Oliver, Hari Kondabolu, Nish Kumar, Chris Addison, Politics, Top Stories, The Last Post, News, Comedy, News Commentary, Alice Fraser, Urncast

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Hari Kondabolu and Anuvab Pal for a turbo-charged tour through history, politics, and questionable phone etiquette.

🍁 In Canada, Trump somehow manages to swing the election against him—was trying to make just one extra state the fatal flaw? We dig into North America's weirdest geopolitical fantasy.

📱 Pete Hegseth’s phone game is all over the place—so naturally, we guess what might explain his behaviour. We're probably wrong.

🧵 The Bayeux Tapestry—beautiful, historic, and possibly the result of an 11th-century frat house? We count the danglers (yes, actual danglers), and ask: was this the first ever meme thread?

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0:00.0	The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.4	Hello, bugles, and welcome to issue 4,338 of the bugle audio newspaper for a world that won't be visual or indeed anything else
0:23.8	if it doesn't get its act together, PFQ at some point in the next couple of thousand years.
0:27.5	I'm Andy Zaltzman, and our philosophical question for this week is,
0:31.3	if a tree falls on a shitting bear in the forest, but no one is live streaming it,
0:35.1	is it news, gossip, rumor or lie?
0:37.2	No one will ever know.
0:38.4	Join me to discuss this and everything else in the known universe. Well, I'm delighted to welcome
0:43.3	back to the bugle. Firstly, from Brooklyn, it's Hari Kondobolu. Hello, Harry, how are you?
0:49.2	I'm good, Andy. How are you? Wait, why did I say I was good? That's a lie. That's a lie.
0:55.1	I was very... I was very... It was very...
0:57.5	You know, because when you're a person with depression, you have to say fine, because if you tell the truth, I mean, the whole world would just end.
1:06.8	But, okay. Yeah, I'm fine, I guess.
1:10.6	Right. Yeah. Okay. Well, we we'll take that you'll take that as a
1:14.4	to start with um also joining us from the end of the show but the end of the show you've been doing
1:24.7	this show now harry for uh what eight and a half years and uh I should know by now not to say, how are you at the start of the show?
1:31.0	I don't like the question.
1:32.6	No, you're quite right. It's a very British.
1:34.4	It's a bit probing.
1:35.9	Yes, it's probing and also fundamentally, when people ask it, they don't really want the honest answer.
1:42.8	No.
1:43.0	So, you know, if the world takes up my proposition that everyone should just wear a
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