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Bugle 4010 – Christmas special!

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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

🗓️ 23 December 2016

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Who needs Christmas? 2016 does. Andy and Helen share a few Christmas tales, play some games and look back at some extreme Christmases of the past. May contain murder.

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0:00.0

Dancelaguard fans, you will be thrilled to know a book is coming out if you fund it via Unbound.

0:05.8

We are publishing the Dancelaguard Reader by Alice Fraser and Dancelaguard,

0:09.8

a glorious insight into the world of Dancelaguard, self-published romance maven,

0:14.8

and online bestseller. If you would like to find out how to support it, go to thebugelpodcast.com.

0:20.8

If we get enough support, we will publish the book. That's a real thing that's going to happen.

0:24.5

Thebugelpodcast.com to support the Dancelaguard Reader.

0:30.0

Thebugel audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:42.4

Hello, Bugelos and welcome to issue 4,010 of the Bugel I'm Andy's Ultimate,

0:51.6

and hang your stockings on your reindeer antlers and book a midwife via manger.

0:56.3

This is the Bugel 2016 Christmas Special.

1:05.5

If you're not into Christmas, you can double this episode off at Hanukkah,

1:08.7

Diwali, Saturday, Yul, the Salas, an ancient festival in which financial discounts are offered,

1:14.6

there's stuff known really once. This is a story sales, and a Newton mass, a celebration of the

1:20.0

birth of alleged physics Messiah Isaac Newton, who was born on 25th December 1642. Newton, of course,

1:27.7

was the only one of quintuplets to reach adulthood with his faculties intact, his siblings,

1:31.9

having all been rendered insensible by their uncle Tony's well-meaning, but badly designed

1:36.2

five baby cradle, which resulted them all repeatedly smashing their heads together while sleeping.

1:40.8

Newton's big miracle, of course, was to make an apple fall out of a tree, which doesn't really

1:44.2

stack up against his 25th-feathered December rival Jesus Christ, who turned a few bottles of

1:48.8

supermarket mineral water into enough wine to get a herd of elephants absolutely smashed.

1:52.5

Anyway, that's by the buy. This is a record-breaking Bugel Christmas Specialist,

1:57.8

yeah, because whilst we have them Christmas shows in the past, this year we are breaking the Bugel

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