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Hello Bugle! Hello Buglers and welcome to Bugle 76 for the week beginning Monday the 1st of June

2009 with me and he's ottman here in the literally inescapable city of London and in the geologically flawed city of San Francisco

How many tectonic plates does it take to make you have to change a light bulb to that one and that one when they get frisky with each other. Well it's the self-style jams a heap of jokes,

the Maharaja of Mirth, the chatra Party of Cheer,

the Polygara of punchlines, the Raoul Bahador of revelry,

wow.

And hotly disputed middleweight champion of the world it's

lieutenant laughter himself John Oliver hello Andy and hello buglers I'm in

San Francisco Andy I'm amongst the beflowered

hippies of California these high-taxed un-American pink-o-liberal extremists are

either going to hell or they're going to heaven if

heaven turns out to be exactly like hell. I've been on tour as you know

Andy all this week going down south and saying the things I've been saying for three years to their face.

I've seen some amazing things this week.

I was in North Carolina and in my hotel there was a comic convention and you've never ridden in an elevator andy until you've ridden

in one with socially awkward teenagers with swords and a man dressed up in a full giant

rabbit suit. I don't think a rabbit is a superhero there was no a Good luck to. I say hello to all the Buglers. There's been a lot of Buglers have been coming along to these gigs, including some people in Nashville who wore hotties from history t-shirts and he then made. Gold- black yeah it was pretty good I've got to say it was

pretty good people I think I like the fact people are making their own merchandise

seeing as we're not selling any it's not not supply and demand, it's just demand and then

self-supply. That's the capitalist dream. It should work. So just a quick bit of

housekeeping before we get going there will be a world record

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