Munich Security Conference, Cuban Cigar Crisis and RFK and the Toilet Seat
2/18/202649 min
On this week of The Bugle, Andy is joined by Nato Green and sister Helen Zaltzman, as they jump into this week's news, from the Munich Security Conference, the Cuban Cigar Crisis, and RFK's toilet seat revelations. In other news the three touch on the further controversy of the Winter Olympics and the end of a 2 decade long pair of tights...sad times!
🇩🇪 Munich Security Conference: Andy, Nato and Helen, get to grips with the recent Munich Security Conference!
🇺🇸 RFK: Andy, Nato and Helen, get there heads around the latest revelation from RFK and his cocaine sniffing habits.
🧦 **End of an Era:** Finally, the group reflect on an End of an Era, as a women's tights that have lasted over 2 decades finally perish. The perfect metaphor for the world right now?
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First 90 secondsSpeaker 00:01
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Andy Zaltzman· Host0:26
[rooster crowing] [news theme] The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. Hello, Buglers, and welcome to issue four thousand three hundred and sixty-nine of the world's leading first, last, and only audio newspaper for a visual world, bringing you some of the news and some of the lies since two thousand and seven. I'm Andy Zaltzman, broadcasting to you from the shed of arguable fact and provable falsehood here in South London. And joining me from the west coast of all the Americas in Vancouver, in the doubly wrongly named British Columbia, Helen Zaltzman, and in San Francisco, it's the man who escaped from Alcatraz, Nato Green. Hello to both of you.
Helen Zaltzman· Panelist1:12
Hello, Andy.
Nato Green· Panelist1:14
Hello, Andy. Hello, Buglers.
Andy Zaltzman· Host1:16
Have you been to Alcatraz?
Nato Green· Panelist1:18
I have, yeah.
Andy Zaltzman· Host1:19
So you, you escaped from it?
Nato Green· Panelist1:20
I, I just walked back to the ferry boat, but, uh, there w- there wasn't a lot of hijinks in the escape.
Andy Zaltzman· Host1:26
But it's still an escape, though, isn't it? I mean, you know, we've got to talk it up. It's the twenty