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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Who are the Houthis and are we at war with them? What is going on with the British Post Office? And can people stop building tunnels? Plus... technology and a Bugle cocktail challenge.

with Nish Kumar and Nato Green. Send thoughts and questions for Andy at [email protected]

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Andy Zaltzman
Nato Green
Nish Kumar

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0:00.0	The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:13.3	Hello, beogles! I am Andy's Altzman and welcome to issue 4,282 of the Bugle
0:20.0	audio guide dog barking into the void to try desperately to ward off the
0:24.4	unquenchable postman of reality. It is the 15th of January
0:28.0	2024 as we record a day that will have already gone down in history by the time you unrecord
0:34.1	sorry listen to this pod blast and once again we are looking at a world that is
0:38.2	not quite living up to its potential for let me just check the official numbers
0:41.3	the 1 millionth week in a row and I think
0:44.3	that basically coincides with the start of the beginning of human
0:46.7	civilization as we know it I'm sure that's purely coincidence joining me today
0:51.2	to shut the eyes and drink the teas. I'm more than delighted beyond ecstatic, borderline delirious to welcome firstly from up the road in South London Nishkumar.
0:59.6	Hello Andy, hello buglers. Happy New Year.
1:03.3	How's 2024 treating you so far?
1:05.9	It's going pretty well.
1:07.4	It's going pretty well unless you think about anything.
1:10.3	Yeah, that's the...
1:11.3	See, maybe as we've learned that, now we're in the fifth year of the decade
1:15.3	Just ignorance is not bliss but ignorance is tolerability
1:19.9	Nothing as long as you as long as you've managed to work out a way to mute the words news on all of your devices,
1:28.0	it's absolutely, it's peachy.
1:32.0	Also from up the road in South London then up the railway line then along the underground
1:36.2	then into the airport then onto an airplane then an eight hour flight then a
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