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Hello Bugleers and welcome to a truly historic issue 48 of the Bugle for the week beginning

Monday the 13th of October 2008 with me and his ultimate here in a studio in the

London next door to the studio being used by the radio station Planet Rock. So if you hear

some rock coming in the background it's from Planet Rock and in New York City it's John Oliver.

Hello Bugleers. Hello Andy. I'm back. I'm back in New York. We've got Paul the engineer back. I'll

feel this is the Bugle up maximum capacity. I met Robert De Niro this week Andy. It was a guest

on the show and he walked past me after I've done my bit and said hey that was funny kid.

He called me kid. I felt like a 12 year old. Oh thanks very much Robert De Niro.

All right Mr De Niro thank you. As he walked down the corridor he said to the person he was with

is he really British and all of a sudden it changed. Hey De Niro come back here.

Don't ride on British. Are you really Italian? Well I had some nice salami. How was

Yom Kippur Andy? Sensational mate. How did your atoning go? Oh there's some amazing atoning.

I'm really high class atoning. Some of the atoning angles that I managed to pull off were really

quite staggering. I'm like the Roger Federer of atoning. Best Yom Kippur ever. Yeah we just all

gathered around the far and opened all our presents and just a lovely family occasion.

No that hold on that's not Yom Kippur Andy. That's not that's Christmas. Bad Jew.

It is the beginning Monday the 13th of October and that means there are some very significant

anniversaries this week. Today Monday it means it's 1,954 years since Niro took power in Rome

and we ask will Italy ever recover? It's looking increasing unlikely. Tuesday means it'll be

942 years since the Normans beat King Harold at the Battle of Hastings taking advantage of the

fact that Harold had played title eliminator against the Vikings a couple of weeks before and a lot

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