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George Bush: 'Regrets? I've had a few'

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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

🗓️ 15 June 2008

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The 33rd ever Bugle podcast, from 2008. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver


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0:00.0

Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha!

0:10.6

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:18.2

Hello Bugleers, and welcome to Issue 33 of the Bugle for the Week Beginning Monday,

0:24.2

the 16th of June 2008 with me and his ultimate in London the UK and in New York City it's John Oliver

0:32.4

Hello viewers! I attended Kaiju Japanese Monster Wrestling at Worcester Hall in New York and

0:40.1

let me tell you I cannot recommend it hardly enough to you. It was absolutely incredible.

0:46.3

I saw a monster who was an, I quote, half hamster, half two cam. And he thought a cycloptopus,

0:56.2

which is, as it's known suggests, half cyclops, half-oct in ending when the hamster two cam hybrid

1:02.6

did a belly splash from the top turnbuckle onto the cycloptopus. Keep your ballet Andy,

1:08.7

keep your opera, keep your high art until they have hamster two cam monsters they're going to

1:14.2

come up short for me. To see adults put this much work into something so overwhelmingly stupid

1:20.2

and truly life-otherming. As always some sections of the view will go straight in the bin this week,

1:25.8

a mid-summer special section. Now that the evenings will start shortening from the 21st of June

1:32.0

with the dread and inevitability of impending death, we ask, what is the point of living anymore?

1:37.5

Also, how to tell your children that you're a druid and when is it right to start discussing

1:41.8

the possibility of sacrificing your little ones with your partner? Also, we have a commemorative

1:46.2

audio reconstruction of one of the big stones at Stonehenge falling over during a mid-summer

1:51.0

sacrifice as it might have done at some point in history. Oh no, trembling has been squashed.

1:58.9

Bloody hell, that is the last time I'm sacrificing here. This place has gone to shit since the Romans left.

2:04.9

And for our southern hemisphere listeners, a special mid-winter section in the bin. Why bother

2:10.3

getting up in the morning when it's almost nighttime already? And for our listeners on the equator,

2:14.6

screw you losers, you wouldn't know a season if it came right up to you and snowed on your head.

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