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Hello, buglers and the warmest of all possible welcomes to Bugle 87 a positive

inferno of a welcome in fact from me and his otteman in London and I'm delighted to introduce my new partner on the

bugle on a probationary two-week contract in New York City John Oliver.

Oh hello Andy.

Hello I'm not I'm a slightly surprised to hear you so I beat this morning.

Not only is the cricket on but it's going bad, isn't it?

Well, it's raining now, John.

So.

That's what it's mean, because you did sound a lot happier than you did about two and a half

minutes ago before it was raining.

Yesterday Andy at work it was our fantasy football draft and

uh... was an unbelievable amount of trash talk. Yeah.

That was, every time I picked a player, I'm sorry, are you all right?

Is everything okay?

Is that a cry for help?

I tend to pick quite old players because I've heard of them.

Oh, so you're right. You don't just go for the convicted dog fight ring runners.

No, and no one picked him, which is a shame because I actually printed off some dog

poster protest to go on.

Whoever picked it, we were going to have an impromptu protest around their desk.

All I'm saying is this year if you see any touchdowns by Michael Turner or Chad Ocho Cinco,

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