Donald Loves Big Guns

The Bugle

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

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Tiff Stevenson, Hari Kondabolu, and elite-tier producer Chad for a power-packed episode full of satire, absurdity, and deeply unnecessary sequels.

🇺🇸 In American news:

Trump gets weirdly complimentary about muscly men in the Middle East

James Comey—aspiring hitman or maître d’? And we ask: who will save the poor, struggling... private jet-owning white South Africans?

💼 The team reveals their old jobs—the cash-grabs, the chaos, and the character-building.

🦝 Wildlife news returns with animals doing very animal things.

📚 In The Bin: books, including a baffling follow-up to The Joy of Sex. Spoiler: not joyful.

📺 Watch our fantasy-comedy series Realms Unknown on this channel and pick up A Passion for Passion here: http://uk.bookshop.org/shop/RealmsUnknown

Produced by Chad, along with Laura Turner and Chris Skinner.

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0:00.0	The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.9	Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,341 of the bugle audio newspaper for a visual world with me and his altman,
0:23.7	the silent foghorn of translucent factuality here in the shed of destiny in South London.
0:29.9	It is the 19th of May 2025 and the world has made it through yet another week of this struggling millennium.
0:35.8	To discuss exactly how it's made it through.
0:38.6	I'm joined by two people who may have their quibbles with this planet but have stuck with it nonetheless.
0:43.6	Firstly, from here in London, it's Tiffany Stevenson. Hello, Tiff.
0:47.6	Hi, I'm a bit full on with the makeup. I had my, if you're watching this online, it's a little extra.
0:56.2	I was doing my Edinburgh photos today.
0:59.2	So, yeah, I've just, well, actually, that's a light.
1:02.7	This is the high glam that's expected when I do the view.
1:06.3	I mean, do you know how long it takes me to get my hair looking this good for every recording?
1:12.3	You've been in makeup for three hours, haven't you, Andy, prior to this?
1:15.8	4,341 episodes in a row.
1:19.4	My hair has been perfect, with a few thousand missing episodes in the middle.
1:25.3	Also joining us looking equally resplendent.
1:29.1	I have to say that for the sake of equality and justice.
1:33.3	From New York, it's Harry Kongoluboli.
1:36.2	Now, Harry, I'm not going to ask, how are you?
1:38.6	Thank you.
1:39.0	Because that never goes well.
1:40.8	So I'm going to, I'm going to, instead, ask, where do you see yourself being in five years' time?
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