Buglers, to celebrate our 18th birthday, we are doing a special hot potato survey of our audience.

We're asking you all kinds of questions about the world, and we're going to see what we can interpret from all of that.

Who knows, it could be pretty fun.

Go to the buglepodcast.com and find out more.

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The bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Hello buglers and welcome to issue 4,356 of the bugle, the world's leading and only audio newspaper for a visual world for 18 consecutive years now.

I am, yet again, Andy Zaltzman, almost 650 full episodes in a row.

That has been the case.

And I'm here in Bugle News Headquarters,

also known as the shed of immutabilitus factuitionary veracetastic truthliness.

That's what it's called.

Here in London, where once the mighty albatross feared to lay its eggs,

which actually still remains the case.

They've not really adapted to urbanisation as well as some other species, the antisocial feathery bastards. You mean nothing to me. Joining me from all parts of the known world,

firstly, in Australia, it's Alice Fraser. Hello, Alice.

Hello, Andy. Hello, buglers. It's a delight to be here.

How's Australia?

Just generally, a pretty good, occasionally, deadly, generally, complacent, politically speaking.

Well, let's see if the United States of America can match up to that.

Joining us from there, it's Hari Kondabolu.

Hello, Harry.

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