233: Venezuela update 🇻🇪
The Last Post
Chris Skinner
4.8 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 20 August 2020
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Comandante Nato Green, Leader of the People's Army of the People United, reports on the USA's failed coup on the democratically-elected Venezuelan government, and brings some solid banana republic-related wordplay to the table.
Comandante Green was on earlier this week, in episode 231 (US Elections latest) and first featured this year in episode 10 (Employment news). Keep an eye out for his return to the show in the next two weeks.
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This episode was produced by Harriet Wells, Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, it's producer Chris from the Bugle here. Did you know that I have a new series of my podcast, |
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| 0:34.6 | When passions run high And secrets run deep |
| 0:37.9 | When plots twist and turn and turn and twist |
| 0:41.3 | When you love and loathe characters in equal measure |
| 0:44.8 | Oh I think she's a wrongan |
| 0:46.4 | Yeah, it's the shifty eyes |
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| 1:05.5 | The Bugle presents the last post with Alice Fraser. |
| 1:35.2 | Hello, posters, and welcome to The Last Post, the final word in this, the most final of worlds. |
| 1:40.0 | Today's episode marks the 20th of August of the year 2020. |
| 1:52.4 | And on this date in history, in the year 14 AD, Agrippa, the maternal grandson of the late Roman Emperor Augustus, was executed by his guards under mysterious circumstances while in exile. |
| 1:54.4 | Executed by your guards. |
| 1:57.8 | There's one for the top ten list of, you had one job, memes. |
| 2:04.2 | And in 1597 on this date, the Dutch East India Company returned from the far east for the first time, the first ships coming back, beginning an explosion of empire, capitalism and |
| 2:08.5 | occasional mass murder, as well as sparking off a long and extremely lopsided commercial |
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