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4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 36 minutes

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First time Bugler Alison Spittle and Nish Kumar join host Andy Zaltzman to talk all things from Egyptian robots to randy monarchs.

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0:00.0	The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world!
0:15.3	Hello, broigles!
0:16.3	They're bloody spell checker, and welcome to a special edition of the show, in which we
0:20.1	teach you how to paint social least-a-turrical townscapes that really capture the essence
0:24.1	of 16th and century Dutch and Flemish life.
0:26.4	It's amazing how much a podcast can be shaped by the first two words.
0:29.5	get one of them wrong and it just becomes a whole different show. Later on we'll be talking about the importance of facial detail and apparently non-important background figures, and asking what's up with win-mills.
0:38.0	But first, how to paint someone shitting out of all of our soddest let's restart. Can we cancel Gerhard Richter?
0:43.5	Well of course he's going to be cross but I didn't book him until the start of this paragraph.
0:47.5	I tell him to f*ing channel it into his next fing painting then. Jeez, he should be fing flat a f*ing thought of him.
0:52.5	I could have asked Hockney but I didn't, I just googled paintings and he was the first one in the list who hadn't died at least a hundred years ago, honestly. Pro artists, so on all these days.
1:00.5	Let's try take two, let's try not to get the letters mixed up this time.
1:03.5	Hello Gerbels, no, absolutely not.
1:06.5	Take three. Hello buglers, yes, there we are. There we are. Third time lucky. Welcome to issue 4,210 of the bugle with me.
1:15.5	Andy Zoltzman, coming at you, all be coming at you indirectly in non-corporeal audio form from the shed here in London.
1:22.5	It is Monday the 25th of October 2021 and I'm joined today. Firstly by a man who simply loves the smell of napalm in the morning.
1:30.5	It's, I'm sorry not napalm, toast. Sorry, toast. Mixing that with the actor Brian Glechid who really does love the smell of napalm in the morning which is a relic of his method acting days and his unsuccessful audition for the poplips now.
1:42.5	Please welcome Nish Kumar. Hello, Andy. Hello buglers. Andy, before we started recording, remember when you said, brace yourselves because this intro is quite long.
1:53.5	Yes, you were not wrong. You are, you are many things Andrew, but a liar is not one of them. Well, that is one of the, I mean, that is a lie.
2:02.5	I'm going to pick up on that. But you know, something I don't know about. How are you? I'm well, thanks. I'm well, how are you?
2:12.5	Yeah, very good. Very excited to be back. I've been on bugle hiatus and now I'm back and I'm backed up with bugle well.
2:21.5	I felt myself going down a bad road there and I've pulled myself out of it. Yeah, because you've been on a two month expedition.
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