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The Bugle

Andy Zaltzman, Satire, Tiff Stevenson, Test Match Special, The Gargle, John Oliver, Hari Kondabolu, Nish Kumar, Chris Addison, Politics, Top Stories, The Last Post, News, Comedy, News Commentary, Alice Fraser, Urncast

4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Love Sci Fi and Fantasy? Discover our new show Realms Unknown: https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/realms-unknown

Tech Bro's now run the world, until their Chinese Techrivals outtech them. This may be why they are getting into politics? We explore a bunch of stories where tech and politics collide, and look at the impact on the kids. Spoiler: they are not alright.

Also, Andy shares his 'fun' travels.

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Featuring:

Andy Zaltzman

Alice Fraser

Anuvab Pal

Produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Oh hello, strangers. I'm Alice Fraser, your guide to the galaxies, goblins, dungeons and dystopias.
0:06.2	We'll be hurling ourselves into a weekly hero's journey through realms unknown into the dark but sensual heart of all our favourite speculative fictions.
0:15.1	We'll navigate the wild realms created by brilliant authors, filmmakers, game designers and more.
0:20.8	New episodes drop every week on your podcast app or on YouTube.
0:25.1	Do not resist the call to adventure chosen one.
0:28.0	Join me for Realms Unknown.
0:43.5	The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:52.0	Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,329 of the bugle audio newspaper for a visual world with me.
0:53.6	Andy Zaltman, we are another week. Further into the history
0:55.3	of humanity yet again, the latest plot twist have been a bit predictable and annoying, but that's
1:00.7	soft in the way with series that have gone on for so long. Just gratuitous schlock horror squirm
1:05.2	inducing nonsense to desperately try to keep people interested enough to make it to the next ad break.
1:09.7	To discuss this latest episode in Earth, the Human Years,
1:13.1	I'm joined by two locals, two planet Earth, two veterans of the second and third
1:16.8	Millennium, both controversial in their own different ways.
1:19.5	Two people, I mean the Millennium's not the people,
1:21.6	two people who've skillfully managed not to allow themselves to become
1:24.3	species-sundering plutocrats or resentment-mongering politicians.
1:27.7	Congratulations to both of them for their dignified refusal to go down those poison political paths.
1:32.3	Firstly, from Australia, it's Alice Fraser.
1:34.5	Hello, Alice.
1:35.5	Hello, Andy.
	...

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