The Blue Wave, The Big Tantrum & The BBC - It's Bugle 4360!
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🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, Andy Zaltzman is joined by Helen Zaltzman and Josie Long for an episode awash with political upheaval, mild optimism, and existential dread.
🌊 The Blue Wave: Across the US, progressives are making surprising gains — including Zohran Mamdani’s win in NYC. But how long before the wave meets the usual breakwater of bureaucracy?
🎙️ Trump vs the BBC: In a glorious meltdown that will echo through press rooms for decades, Donald Trump loses it live on air. Andy brings us a world-exclusive “interview” with The Don himself — because if you can’t get him in person, you can always get him in parody.
🔥 The End of the World (Slowly): Climate, conflict, capitalism — the apocalypse is on layaway, but it’s still coming. Don’t worry, there’s time to panic later.
🎄 Christmas Is Coming! Celebrate the festive season with irony and warmth by grabbing your official Bugle Christmas jumper at thebuglepodcast.com. Perfect for hiding your despair in style.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:13.5 | Hello, buglers and welcome to issue 4,360 of the bugle, the world's leading and only audio newspaper for a visual world. Now, well into its second 18 years' worth of remorselessly unbiased dereportage on the shillings and shillings of planet Earth and its current species in charge. I'm joined by two people, both of whom I first met, when they were not yet 18 years old. |
| 0:39.7 | So younger than the bugle is now. |
| 0:42.8 | Literally a millennium ago in both cases, joining us from Glasgow. |
| 0:47.0 | Someone I was defeated by in a competition in 1999 when she was 17, I think. |
| 0:52.4 | Yes. |
| 0:52.7 | I'm not referring to the say you think you're funny final, |
| 0:55.3 | won by the Bugles David Odoherty. |
| 0:57.3 | I'm referring to the 1999 New Assassin of the Year award, |
| 1:00.7 | who was pretty close. |
| 1:01.9 | But I've never been very good at the cleanup phase. |
| 1:03.7 | It's Josie Long. |
| 1:04.7 | Hello, Josie. |
| 1:05.7 | Hello, and I'm still using the same Bowie knife. |
| 1:10.5 | There we go. |
| 1:12.4 | How's Glasgow? |
| 1:14.0 | It's lovely. It's a beautiful sunny day up here and very warm. |
| 1:18.8 | So I'm sure that's nothing to worry about or dwell on. |
| 1:22.1 | Well, to provide balance, it's pissing with rain on the roof of the shed and elsewhere in London. |
| 1:28.9 | That can't be that one. |
| 1:31.2 | Also joining us, someone I met when I was defeated in a competition in 1980. |
| 1:35.8 | That competition being the youngest member of the Zaltzman family competition that I'd won for |
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