Frazzles and Chipsticks (4208)
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Andy is with a returning Tom Ballard and a debuting Neil Delamere to talk shrinkflation, trade deals, birds and sportswashing.
Come see us live at Leicester Square Odeon, in London, on 13th November.
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Come see us live at Leicester Square Odeon, in London, on 13th November.
We are funded entirely by you, the listener. Listeners who sign up via OUR NEW WEBSITE thebuglepodcast.com have long enjoyed the opportunity to get: mentions on the show (in the form of lies), merchandise and general sense of wellbeing for supporting this fine work of art. As of this week you can also support the show directly via Apple Podcasts. Our new channel ‘Team Bugle’ also includes The Gargle and Tiny Revolutions, shows which currently carry ads - but they will be completely ad free on this channel. So if you love The Bugle, and it’s siblings, then please support The Bugle via our website or Apple Podcasts where you can subscribe today.
Buy a loved one Bugle Merch - COLD AND WET WEAVER T SHIRTS ON SALE NOW). Listen to The Gargle here: https://pod.link/Gargle
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The Bugle is hosted this week by:
Andy Zaltzman
Neil Delamere
Tom Ballard
And produced by Chris Skinner
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:15.9 | Basic greeting, a bit of waffle, introduced guests pretend to care what they've been |
| 0:19.7 | up to, something about the date, section in the bin, needless cricket reference, a bleak |
| 0:24.1 | message about sorry I'm reading the running order not the script, sorry mum's date. |
| 0:31.1 | Hello Bugleers and welcome to issue 4200n of the Bugle with me and ex-altzman in the |
| 0:36.6 | shed not live and in zero dimensions as is self in the case with recorded audio shows, |
| 0:41.1 | unless you count time and sound as dimensions which is up to you. It's Monday the 11th of |
| 0:45.7 | October 2021 as we record and later on we will be looking at the global supply chain |
| 0:51.4 | problems but there's no such trouble with our Bugle co-hosts this week. First someone |
| 0:56.6 | who's not been on the show for six months during which time he's been a mixture of stuck |
| 1:00.7 | in a shipping container and or totally out of fuel, excuse me that's why he's not been |
| 1:04.3 | on anyway but thankfully the global supply of Tom Ballard is flowing once again. Welcome |
| 1:09.5 | back Tom, have you been? |
| 1:12.5 | I have been terrible. Sorry I should have some humorous jokes about this but no I've |
| 1:20.2 | had a medial collapse at a identity crisis questioning my place in the world. There's been |
| 1:25.4 | a lot of inflation around my body as well I put on a lot of weight and I'm desperate |
| 1:30.0 | for this hellhole of pandemic lockdown to be over so I can be free and out there living |
| 1:35.1 | a more fulfilling life connecting with other human beings but thank you for asking Andy |
| 1:38.5 | out. |
| 1:39.5 | Alright now how important it is to you to check in with us and ask us what we should |
| 1:43.1 | have to do. |
| 1:44.1 | The last section of introductory banter. Now obviously the idea that supplies everything |
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