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Munich Security Conference, Cuban Cigar Crisis and RFK and the Toilet Seat

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

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2026

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

On this week of The Bugle, Andy is joined by Nato Green and sister Helen Zaltzman, as they jump into this week's news, from the Munich Security Conference, the Cuban Cigar Crisis, and RFK's toilet seat revelations. In other news the three touch on the further controversy of the Winter Olympics and the end of a 2 decade long pair of tights...sad times!


🇩🇪 Munich Security Conference: Andy, Nato and Helen, get to grips with the recent Munich Security Conference!

🇺🇸 RFK: Andy, Nato and Helen, get there heads around the latest revelation from RFK and his cocaine sniffing habits.

🧦 End of an Era: Finally, the group reflect on an End of an Era, as a women's tights that have lasted over 2 decades finally perish. The perfect metaphor for the world right now?


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Nato Green's Links: https://www.instagram.com/mrnatogreen/?hl=en


Helen Zaltzman's Links: https://answermethispodcast.com/author/helenzaltzman/


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0:00.0

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0:21.7

Watch us on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcast.

0:26.1

Ah, ha, ha, ha, ha.

0:32.0

The Bugle, Audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:39.8

Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,369 of the world's leading first, last and only audio newspaper for a visual world,

0:49.2

bringing you some of the news and some of the lies since 2007.

0:53.0

I'm Andy Zaltzman, broadcasting to you from the shed of

0:55.9

arguable fact and provable falsehood here in South London, and joining me from the west coast of

1:01.2

all the Americas in Vancouver in the doubly wrongly named British Columbia, Helen Zaltzman,

1:07.0

and in San Francisco, to the man who escaped from Alcatraz, NATO Green. Hello to both of you. Hello, Andy. Hello, Andy. Hello, Bueglars. Have you been to Alcatraz? I have, yeah. So you escape from it? I just walked back to the ferry boat, but there wasn't a lot of hijinks in the escape. But it's still an escape, isn't it? I mean, you know, we've got to talk it up. It's the 2020s. I think you're more likely to get away with it if there's less hijink distraction. Yeah. I just blended into the crowd on the boat that corresponded to my ticket. So... Yeah. It's gone soft, to be honest,

1:44.3

over the year. Hiding in plain sight.

1:47.2

So

1:47.7

last week, my

1:50.0

children who are 17,

1:51.9

the San Francisco public schools were on strike

1:54.1

for five days.

1:55.8

And so my kids were on strike for five

1:57.9

days. And because their dad

2:00.1

is their dad, they went to the picket line every day and fully

2:06.4

dressed up in union kit, which we have a union kit drawer in the house.

2:13.9

And then they came home and at the dinner table complained to me that the teachers who were leading the strike did not want them to shout at scabs like their daddy had taught them to do.

2:28.1

How were they supposed to learn to strike with those limitations?

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