Civil War 2: Electric Boogaloo
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 2 September 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Bugle returns after a short hiatus as Andy, Alice Fraser and Nato Green discuss the forthcoming US civil war, lesbian dance theory, Liz Truss PM, and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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This episode was written and presented by
Andy Zaltzman
Alice Fraser
Nato Green
And produced by Ped Hunter and Chris Skinner
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:13.6 | Hello, Bugles! |
| 0:15.0 | And welcome to issue 4,238 of the Bugle, the audio newspaper commissioned by the Fates themselves |
| 0:22.0 | to chronicle the long-slow decline of humanity into a pit of inescapable decrepit sorry. |
| 0:27.6 | I'm Andy Kennedy, short, my name is Dave. |
| 0:30.4 | I'm Andy Zoltzman, it's the 31st of August 2022 as we record, so I'm not going to hear this until next month. |
| 0:37.2 | So it might be a bit out of date by the time you set 10, we're applying the foams, listening to this. |
| 0:42.4 | We're back after our summer hiatus, in which the global apocalyptic graph needle continued flickering annoyingly upwards, |
| 0:48.4 | war famine drought floods, a hundred war cricket tournaments, people babbling on in Goher and into each other. |
| 0:53.2 | All the classic harbingers got busy harbinging through the last month or so, and to try to bring a halt to all things apocalyptic. |
| 1:00.8 | Joining me today, fresh from the Edmundre Festival, it's Alice Fraser and not fresh from the Edmundre Festival. |
| 1:06.8 | In California, NATO Green, hello to both of you. |
| 1:10.8 | Welcome to the first post hiatus bugle. How is your August? |
| 1:16.0 | Lovely, I've been harbing watching the end of the world. |
| 1:20.0 | It's been like a month since the last bugle, and there's been quite a lot happening in the news. |
| 1:26.8 | There's been a lot going on, and I would just as we look forward to September, I would like to respectfully ask everyone in the world to shut the f*** up. |
| 1:37.6 | Just for like a week, just to shut the f*** up for a week, go to a post and retreat, do some silent meditation, just so we can catch a breather. |
| 1:49.6 | My dad runs some nice courses. |
| 1:52.4 | The problem with your dad's courses, Alice, is he doesn't have space for 7.5 billion people on them. |
| 1:59.2 | That is what it's needed. I mean a week-long global silence, I think might be the most practical idea for the betterment of this planet that I've ever heard. |
| 2:11.2 | We are recording on Wednesday 31st of August 2022, happy birthday to the former Ego Maniac horn dog Roman emperors, Caligula and Commodus. |
| 2:24.4 | We're announced as two of the shittiest Roman emperors of all time. |
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