US Navy comes up short (and hungry)
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🗓️ 22 April 2026
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Summary
It's issue 4376! This week Andy is joined by Tiff Stevenson and Neil Delamere as the three jump into this week's news! Starting off with the ramifications of the war in Iran, the trio also discuss the state of US Navy's dining in the wake of reported food shortages, the planet burning up and the UK's Mandelson problem rumbles on!
🇺🇸 US Navy's short supply: The trio discuss the US Navy's food shortage and some ingenious ways of solving it!
🔥 The world's on fire!: The three jump into the latest news out of Japan, as the country prepare to hit a 40c summer.
🇬🇧 UK's Mandelson problem: Andy, Tiff and Neil report the latest on Starmer and his government as they continue to navigate the debacle.
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Tiff Stevenson's Links: https://tiffstevenson.co.uk/
Neil Delamere's Links: https://www.neildelamere.com/reinventing-the-neil-tour
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| 0:00.0 | Buglers, why kids' jokes so funny? |
| 0:03.8 | Why do elite sportsmen get given a green blazer? |
| 0:07.3 | And why is a German supermarket opening a pub in the north of Ireland? |
| 0:12.5 | Find out in my podcast, Mildily informed with me, producer Chris, in your podcast feed now. |
| 0:28.9 | Music in your podcast feed now. The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:32.5 | Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,376 of the Bugle, audio newspaper for a... Oh, what was it? Nah. Oh, I forgot my own show's tagline. Visceral? Vicious. Vitriolic. Visual. There we go. Get there eventually. Audio newspaper for a visual world. I'm Andy Zaltzman. The self-styled Jimmy Hendrix of not enjoying the state of the |
| 0:54.8 | planet right now. I'm taking it to hold new levels. It is the 20th of April, 26, and I'm delighted to be |
| 1:00.7 | joined for this week's bugle by Tiffany Stevenson and Neil Delamere. Hello to both of you. |
| 1:06.9 | Hello. |
| 1:08.1 | Neil, you are in Dublin currently. |
| 1:12.3 | How's that quick? |
| 1:13.6 | We are approaching. |
| 1:15.6 | It's going to be in two months from, |
| 1:16.8 | 10 years since the Brexit referendum in the UK. |
| 1:20.2 | What are the kind of relative levels of smugness in the Republic of Ireland? |
| 1:26.4 | I mean, 10 years on from that |
| 1:28.3 | 10 years on, I mean, |
| 1:31.4 | we are now so smoked we could almost |
| 1:33.7 | handle you guys winning in a major |
| 1:36.1 | European or world football championships. |
| 1:38.8 | We're not quite there yet. |
| 1:40.2 | Only 20 years of full economic Armageddon would maybe prepare the Celtic soul for the success of the English men's senior football team. |
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