We have two live gargle shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Please come along to the Edinburgh Fringe, the 15th and the 22nd of August.

I will be there and an array of delightful guests.

So book your tickets now.

Go to thebugelpodcast.com, forward slash live to buy tickets.

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, Bugles. Welcome to Bugle, 4,067 sub-episode,

a.e. for American tour audio diary.

There is no full Bugle this week, but we do have an exclusive peak behind the scenes

on the just-completed Radio Tokyo Live East Coast tour.

Thanks to all Bugles who came to those shows.

And thanks to those of you who will be coming to the fourth coming shows,

starting this week in San Francisco,

Tuesday the 15th, Portland on Thursday the 17th,

and Seattle on Saturday the 19th.

They're off to several shows in Britain through the summer.

Clearly, the last 10 days have had their fair share of news,

what with Mr. Trump continuing to be,

the Kalashnikov wielding bull strafing the China shop of international relations.

Then we've got Israel and Iran having a cheeky little bidding bidong in Syria,

just as the ordinary people of Syria were presumably thinking.

While it's getting a bit dull around here,

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