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Excuse Me While I F**k The Sky (4242)

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News, News Commentary, Satire, Test Match Special, Comedy, Chris Addison, The Last Post, Nish Kumar, Urncast, Tiff Stevenson, Hari Kondabolu, Alice Fraser, Andy Zaltzman, The Gargle, Mildly Informed, Politics, Top Stories, John Oliver

4.86.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2022

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Nish Kumar and Hari Kondabolu join Andy Zaltzman for a riotous Bugle that makes Nish laugh so hard he, er, farts, while Hari reveals a huge confession.


We take a tour of democracy around the world, taking in Italy, Brazil and Russia, before tucking into some UK politics and the Chancellor's kami-Kwasi mini-Budget.


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This episode was written and presented by

Andy Zaltzman

Hari Kondabolu

Nish Kumar


And produced by Chris Skinner and Ped Hunter


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0:00.0

Feel free to get rid of the uh, chimpsack stuff. I don't think...

0:03.9

I'm gonna put that to the top of the episode.

0:06.5

That's, that's gonna be called chimpsacks. Yeah.

0:09.8

I'd like if the episode was called Feel Free to remove the chimpsack stuff

0:13.5

and then there's no reference to the chimps at all.

0:16.4

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:30.5

Hello, Bugleers and welcome to issue 4242 of the Bugle. Yes, that's issue 4242, the issue which

0:39.2

commemorates not only the brief English history of the 20th century as taught in all schools in

0:45.2

this country, covering only world wars and the result of football World Cup finals. 4242.

0:52.3

But also it commemorates the answers to a four question quiz which used to be set to get you entry

0:57.9

into the British Civil Service in which the questions are one what building is more useful than a tent

1:03.7

when whilst being attacked by a medieval army. Two complete the following sentence the film The Dig

1:08.8

starring some film stars told the story in a kind of mostly true filmy kind of false way

1:13.5

of the discovery of a Saxon burial ship at Sutton what three what word came to be used as an

1:19.3

expression of carnal approbation redland of a patriarchal epoch and four what French pronoun was

1:24.9

voted least necessary by the international society of rampant egotists. Fort, who, four, two.

1:33.1

Okay, it was not necessarily a convoluted beginning but here we are. This is the world we live in.

1:37.2

I am yet again Andy's ultimate for the 4242nd time reporting to you from the shed where dreams come to

1:45.8

sorry where from the shed where I come to record the bugle it is the 3rd of October 2022

1:51.8

joining me this week from two corners of the known universe we have from two miles closer to the

1:56.9

north pole than I am Nish Kumar. Hello Nish. Hello Andy. Hello, are the eagles Andy. I think

2:05.5

you've done very well to get this far into the call without mentioning the fact that last week your

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