Dr Evil Set To Impose Million Percent Tariffs!

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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 14 April 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Bugle, Andy is joined by Josie Long and Nato Green for a chaotic cruise through the week’s weirdest news.

💰 Top Story: Tariffs (ugh, again) — but this time, we’re talking a million percent tariffs. Are we heading toward a financial apocalypse, or just another Tuesday in global trade?

🗞️ America is drifting away from reality, and the news is... not helping. Meanwhile, US university funding takes another hit. Spoiler: it’s not looking good for future rocket scientists.

🐀 And in Rat News from Birmingham: the rats are multiplying, they’re confident, and some may now speak English. Yes, really.

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0:00.0	The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.5	Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,337 of the bugle, audio newspaper for a visible world with me and his Altman,
0:24.3	the undisputable fountainhead of all truth and some lies.
0:28.0	It is for both the first and last time, the 11th of April, 2025,
0:32.0	and I'm joined today to take the pulse of the planet,
0:34.7	to then frantically press the planet in different areas,
0:36.8	trying to find a pulse, any pulse, and then to hopefully make,
0:39.9	pb-dum-p-dum-pidum noises to make it sound like there is a pulse,
0:42.7	whilst pretending everything is just fine.
0:44.6	By, firstly, from San Francisco, the city where tech pros sprout from the flower beds
0:49.3	and the birds singing computer code.
0:51.4	It's NATO Green.
0:52.5	Hello, NATO.
0:53.5	Hello, Andy. Hello,
0:55.0	Bueglars. Andy, I have a confession. I'm not at my best today. Right. Because regular
1:03.0	listeners to the bugle will know that I am a failed comedian and podcaster with a side hobby as a union negotiator.
1:13.4	And yesterday, I was 13 hours at the bargaining table attempting to sort a first union contract
1:19.4	for 350 workers at a science museum.
1:22.5	One implication of that is that I'm exhausted.
1:24.1	The other implication of that is that at points where bargaining got
1:28.4	heated and people needed to cool down, the solution was, hey, let's go to have a look at the
1:35.1	albino alligator. So that was my day yesterday. Right. He wasn't even in the museum. You just
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