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15 Years of Puns!

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Andy Zaltzman, Mildly Informed, 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

4.86.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

PUNS PUNS PUNS! Andy's biggest pun run ever! Plus, terrible UK politicians, and World Cup nostalgia


This is the show notes. Why not listen to our new show, celebrating 15 years of Top Stories: https://www.thebuglepodcast.com/topstories


Featuring:

Andy Zaltzman

Nish Kumar

Hari Kondabolu

John Oliver

Nato Green

Anuvab Pal

Alice Fraser

Chris Addison

Produced by Chris Skinner, Laura Turner and Ped Hunter



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0:00.0

WAAAAAAAH!

0:01.9

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world!

0:13.6

Hello, Bugles. Welcome to this promised bonus sub-bugle issue 4247 sub-episode A.

0:21.1

We said it was coming and here we are. Already, what, 15 seconds in? In fact,

0:24.8

there's this sentence straights up. We could be, well, you know, 25 or even 30 seconds in

0:30.1

before you know it. Coming up on our recent live tour, audiences got to enjoy,

0:34.8

if that is the correct word, puns, if that is the correct word, special puns, 2007 puns,

0:40.4

and we've held them back until this high-per-special sub-episode,

0:45.5

until right now, well in fact later, in the show. We've also got some recent UK news,

0:50.4

so it was so much that we held some back for this week, and in no way has it dated radically,

0:55.5

as the UK continues to defy the very concept of time and progress. But before that,

1:00.9

the Football World Cup. As you may know, we have a new series called Top Stories,

1:05.6

Link in the Show Notes, and whatever they are, and at this week, it focuses on some classic

1:10.1

World Cup moments. You know, from when the World Cup wasn't a harrowing journey into the darkness

1:14.9

of the human soul, including from episode 272, so as a preview to that, here's the

1:20.6

pre-top story excitement from 2014 in Brazil.

1:28.4

Well, with me and his ultimate life, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. I am heading back home in an

1:34.4

hour, I just had to come out here to pick up my kids up, and as the last time, I'd tell them not

1:38.4

to come home until they found one of the two largest Jesus statues in the world.

1:42.4

Particularly the one in Rio isn't even top two anymore, equal third after the polls

1:46.0

backed up a 34 meter massage a couple years ago. Parallel losers, my kids that is not the

1:50.9

Jesus' two of them though, wondered the tricks, one told the stories. Anyway, and joining me,

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