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Bonus: Everything August aka Silly Season

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News, News Commentary, Satire, Test Match Special, Comedy, Chris Addison, The Last Post, Nish Kumar, Urncast, Tiff Stevenson, Hari Kondabolu, Alice Fraser, Andy Zaltzman, The Gargle, Mildly Informed, Politics, Top Stories, John Oliver

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 August 2017

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Andy looks back at everything that's ever happened in the world, in August, on The Bugle. Features Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver on Gaddafi, The Olympics, Afghanistan AND THE WORST RUSSIAN NEWS YOU'LL EVER HEAR

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0:05.8

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0:14.8

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0:20.8

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0:24.5

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0:30.0

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0:44.0

Hello, Bugels, and welcome to Bugel 4,037, sub-episode B for Polterdash,

0:50.0

Belonie, Bunkermann, Bullshit, the official law firm of the Bugelpodcast.

0:54.9

I am Andy Zoltman on approaching the end of my holidays now, where,

0:58.9

if all has gone according to plan I will have made it to the quarterfinals at least

1:03.3

of the Mr. Dry T-shirt competition, performed a full 720-air reverse on my indoor surfboard,

1:10.3

seen and shot a live teradactyl, and squeezed most of an ancient temple into my suitcase

1:16.1

in the traditional British manner. It is now officially August, the renowned month which

1:21.3

despite claims of the country from some people in the southern hemisphere is in the summer.

1:25.3

It's a quality month is August, a terrific 31-day wopper. It is of course neurosurgery

1:31.9

outreach month, so do take advantage of this to reach out and perform some neurosurgery on someone.

1:38.3

The star sign for the earlier part of August that we currently in is Leo, and the reason for that

1:43.9

is because statistically Lions on average, slay more zebras from the 22nd of July to the 22nd of August

1:50.8

than in any other single week of the year. Julius Caesar, the former

1:55.4

Roman big cheese and slaying monthly magazines, assassination victim of the year in 44 BC.

2:02.4

Well, he whacked a couple of extra days into what's now August, it was then the piddlingly short

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