We have two live gargle shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Please come along to the Edinburgh Fringe, the 15th and the 22nd of August.

I will be there and an array of delightful guests.

So book your tickets now.

Go to thebugelpodcast.com, forward slash live to buy tickets.

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, be euglers and welcome to an entirely new year of human existence to be chronicle

exclusively for posterity by the Bugle.

Audio newspaper for a world entering at least its 39,000th consecutive year of being predominantly visual.

Probably more. I am Andy Zoltzmann and here I am in London 2019, a year which as we speak

is already speeding towards its conclusion.

What will this year bring Brexit, Trump each month, the UN imposing a three month sabbatical

for all humanity to just kickbacks, take stock, refresh and regroup, England, winning a cricket

world cup. All things that just a few short years ago would have seemed absolutely f**king impossible.

What the year will certainly bring and I can say this with a high level of confidence is an

absolute minimum of one appearance on the Bugle by Alice Fraser because she is sitting opposite

me right and she is now lost so that counts as that one her work is done for the year.

She looks, I can not see the future. She looks on canally like someone about to talk about some

of the things that have already happened this year on this world famous planet of ours. Happy new

Bugle year to the flare of Flamingo to herself, Alice Fraser. Hello Andy, hello, Bugle.

It has been already an event for a year which it shouldn't be because this is the dull drums of

the year and nothing should happen in the year before my birthday. Right, which is...

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