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Hello Bugleers, and well, here we are.

Who would have thought it?

It's the 200th Bugle.

Again, that the second time this show has reached, it's 200th episode.

this one the 200th since our emotional 2016 relaunch. I am broadcasting this from an open

top bus, parading through the world where all of our 7.6 billion potential listeners

have come out in force to mark this historic occasion, although of course Chris the wizard

audio genius that he has tweaked the audio to make it sound like I'm recording as normal

in the shed. But that's not happening, I'm on an open top bus travelling around the world

and no one could have predicted this day would come, at least not until at least 2007. I

guess you might have called it, as people came into existence then in the relatively early

primordial super-cup podcasting universe. But we've been through a bit since then 294

episodes with some other guy whose name I forget. And now this is the 200th since we relaunch.

I mean much like the world in general, for most of its early history the bugle was entirely

governed by white European men, me and John Aydin first by Tom and then Chris. But since

relaunch a lot of think we've represented the scope of humanity at least a little bit

more accurately and it all rebegan in October 2016 when Harry Condobolo joined me in New York

City and it has carried on re rebeginning with new episodes in 199 now of the ensuing 247

weeks since then and some episodes in most other weeks. That's a lot of hours of bullshit

and I'm joined to mark this landmark moment in the history of this planet. Sorry this

podcast by one person who's been here since well basically the start of the restart and

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