The Honey Badger Bugle
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 June 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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This week, Andy Zaltzman leads an international panel of Buglers through the chaos of politics, wildlife, and billionaire bromances—with a special focus on honey badgers, New Zealand’s political drama, and the heartbreaking (or not?) Musk/Trump split.
Andy, Felicity Ward and James Nokise dig in to...
🦡 Honey badgers are fearless, chaotic, and possibly the spiritual animal of this podcast. We investigate their weird mythology and even weirder attitude.
🇳🇿 New Zealand politics is heating up—by Kiwi standards, at least. We delve into coalition collapses, policy oddities, and why it’s all oddly polite. 💔 Elon Musk and Donald Trump: the bromance is off. What happened? Who kept the merch? And can either of them survive without the other’s echo?
⚠️ Warning: This episode contains BS. You’ve been warned.
📺 Watch Realms Unknown, now fully visualised on YouTube. Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner. Possibly supervised by a honey badger.
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:14.8 | Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,343 of the bugle, the planet's leading and only audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:24.2 | I am Andy Zaltzman here in Bugle News headquarters, a shed in my garden, where we keep tabs on literally everything that happens in the universe. |
| 0:32.6 | Well, I have a computer, so I could do that if I wanted to. The things I generally keep tabs on, |
| 0:37.6 | generally involve people hitting and throwing balls at each other. |
| 0:40.6 | Joining me to forensically analyse the latest week |
| 0:42.8 | to have rightly consigned itself to the history books |
| 0:44.6 | or to the history social media feeds these days, I suppose. |
| 0:47.4 | Firstly, from here in London, it's Felicity Ward. |
| 0:50.3 | Hello, Felicity. |
| 0:51.8 | How are you? |
| 0:53.4 | Hello. |
| 0:53.5 | Just when you said hitting balls with sticks, |
| 0:56.4 | it took me all of my willpower, |
| 0:58.5 | not just you go, |
| 0:59.0 | Oh, |
| 0:59.8 | show us you back. |
| 1:07.2 | Good is the answer to that. |
| 1:09.0 | Oh, that's good. That's good, that's good news. |
| 1:12.9 | And also joining us from basically as far away as you can get on this planet |
| 1:17.5 | without going into space. |
| 1:19.2 | In New Zealand, it's James Nekisei. |
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