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Hello Bugleers and welcome to issue 38 of the Bugle, the world's greatest audio newspaper

for a visual world for the week-winning Monday, the 28th of July 2008, which means at the

day the year and the addition number of a Bugle all end in eight, which means that the world

is 23% certain to end this week. Sorry, that is clearly partly our fault. I'm Andy Zoltzman

in the beautiful city of London and in New York City, it's Mr John Oliver. Hello Bugleers.

Hello Andy. Hello. How are you doing? I'm okay, thanks John. I had a slightly awkward encounter

a few days ago with Will Ferrell. I think you saw the show. He was a guest on the Daily Show,

and as he's walking down the corridor to go on, I can see he was wearing a Chelsea shirt,

and I've met him before, but I certainly don't know him, and as the interview was going on,

all I could feel was this rage swelling up in my stomach. And after he came over to say hello,

and I said to him, oh, so you support Chelsea then? And he said, I don't know, I just like

soccer in general, I haven't really chosen a team yet. I found myself saying, well, you have now Will,

you've chosen Ferrell and you've chosen badly, and now you have to live with that choice.

What is it strange to say to someone who is in a very different tax bracket?

It looks slightly concerned. I could feel the hooligan in me coming out.

It is Monday the 28th of July this week, which means that yesterday, Sunday the 27th,

was National Sleepy Head Day in Finland, in which the laziest person in the house is traditionally

thrown into a lake. And John to me, this is the problem when a country has too many lakes.

They look for flash things to do with them. And this discrimination against the

laziest is the 21st century's version of the persecution of the early Christians by the

Lions. It's got to stop. I wasn't by the Lions, Andy. The Lions were just following orders there.

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