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

By an unbound, we are publishing the Dancelaguard Reader by Alice Fraser and Dancelaguard,

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

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

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

Thebugelpodcast.com to support the Dancelaguard Reader.

Hello, Buglers and welcome to issue 4,027 of the Bugel, and or BL002, the highlights of the

second Bugel live show from Melbourne, Australia. I am Andy Zoltzmann as you probably know by now,

and I'm back above the equator. Water is no longer squirting me directly in the face as it flies

upwards out of the pluckhole. The blood is no longer flowing the wrong way up my arteries and

or veins, and the sun is coming up on the right side of the sky again. Thanks very much to the

Southern Hemisphere for having me, and thanks to everyone who came to my shows there, I will be

back in hopefully not too distant future. This week's Bugel was recorded back on Sunday the 23rd of

April, the final day of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, in the town hall in the city that

but for a serious lack of foresight by the people of 19th century Australia, was so nearly called

Batmania, a missed opportunity that Australia continues to rule to this day. At least I assume they

rule it, they certainly should rule it. The Bugel live that you're about to listen to covers all the

issues of the day from two weeks ago with guests Will Anderson and Zoe Kuhm's Ma, including an

Australian government that had just pledged to scrap the 457 visa for temporary skilled overseas

workers. It doesn't affect me as I only qualify for words one and three of that phrase. It was

recorded just before round one of the French election. Round two is this Sunday, the 7th of

May, so by the time you listen to this, Europe may possibly be absolutely shitting itself,

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