The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world Hello Bugleers and welcome to Bugle 68

for the week beginning Monday the 23rd of March 2009 with me Andy Zoltzmann here in

Geographically Undeniable City of London and in the sweetly fragrance spring city of New

York in the cute little country of the USA it's John Hoops Oliver Hello Andy Hello Bugleers

Hoops Hoops Oliver I heard you've been whirling a hula hoop around for three other days

That's right I thought it was a botical reference I was going to say that would be wrong

So in fact floor gymnastics I had to go for a medical this week Andy as part of my application

for a Greek card in my ongoing tango with US immigration and this in itself seems strange

because to argue that you need to be physically fit to live in America it's slightly undermined

by the size of many of the people who live here unless that's what it's all about I'm

under weight and they won't let me in until I've piled on enough weight and I need to

leave my apartment each morning by being winched out of a window by a crane I had to get

a bunch of immunization shots and give blood for a tuberculosis test tuberculosis maybe

hadn't been clear enough on my form I'm from England not pretty industrial revolution

England the doctor always Cuban he rolled up my sleeve and started getting ready with

this spiky thing and said look to me with you know real serious desires what do you think

of Castro I said to me what is the best answer to give bearing in mind what you're about

to do to me and you're even crosser and said I don't like Castro I hate him and he stuck

me with the needle on the word hate he decided to talk about something else a different subject

he might have been a bit more gentle anyway the point is I'm going to get the results

after this America really make your work for it Andy this is better be worth it immunization

shots that sounds like some kind of photo shoot for a strange fetishistic website we just

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