Rage Bait Bugle (Bumper Edition!)

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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2025

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

Recorded live in Melbourne, this week’s Bugle is a full-throttle Rage Bait Special, with Andy Zaltzman joined by Lloyd Langford, Sami Shah, and Alice Fraser to chew through the year’s biggest stories with fury, confusion, and jokes of questionable legality.

🇦🇺 Australia: We confront the latest tragedies in Australia, and try (with limited success) to process them through satire, empathy, and yelling into the void.

🇺🇸 Trump News: Meanwhile, Donald Trump continues to do… whatever it is he’s doing now. We attempt to identify it, label it, and possibly quarantine it.

📁 Epstein: We dig a little deeper into what we do and don’t know — and why this story refuses to go away.

📆 And we rummage through some of the other best (and worst) stories of 2025, because there’s always more. Always. Angry, funny, cathartic — this is The Bugle doing what it does best, in front of a live Australian audience.

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0:00.0	I will be in Australia for the next few weeks, hoping that the cricket can provide the distraction for everyone that it has so successfully provided for me since I was six years old. If you want to come to my shows, there is a bugle live in Melbourne on the 22nd of December where I'll be joined by Sammy Shaw and Lloyd Langford. And I'm doing the Zaltgeist, my stand-up show in Melbourne on the 23rd of December. and we've just added a possibly optimistic extra show in Sydney on the 3rd of January
0:23.4	the 2nd of January show is sold out but please please please come on the third
0:28.3	my UK tour extension begins at the end of January all details and ticket links at
0:32.3	andesaltzman.co.uket UK
0:33.9	Hello Melbourne UK.
0:40.8	Hello, Melbourne.
0:45.3	The bugle,
0:47.7	audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:50.2	Well, this is showbiz.
0:53.4	Welcome to the bugle live thank you
0:56.4	thank you all for coming
0:58.1	how many have you been to a bugle live before
1:00.7	how many of you listen to the bugle at all
1:04.0	how many of you have never listened to it
1:06.9	yeah well what's and you're sitting right down the front?
1:12.3	Excellent.
1:13.4	Welcome.
1:14.9	So, I do enjoy the show.
1:17.6	So, there we go.
1:19.1	That's the end of the music.
1:21.6	So, yes.
1:23.2	So this is doubling up as issue 4,363 of the bugle.
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