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Obama and his 'do nothing' wonderland

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Andy Zaltzman, Mildly Informed, Satire, Tiff Stevenson, Test Match Special, The Gargle, John Oliver, Hari Kondabolu, Nish Kumar, Chris Addison, Politics, Top Stories, The Last Post, News, Comedy, News Commentary, Alice Fraser, Urncast

4.86.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2009

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The 62nd ever Bugle podcast, from 2009. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver


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0:00.0

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

0:14.7

Hello, I'm Bugles, and welcome to Issue 62 of The Bugle, the world's greatest and only

0:24.0

audio newspaper for a visual world for the beginning Monday, the 2nd of February 2009

0:28.6

with me Andy Zoltzmann here in London and in New York City, Mr John Oliver.

0:33.7

Hello Bugles, hello Andy, how are you doing Andy?

0:37.5

I'm alright, thanks mate, I'm okay, although little Horace had a quite a prolonged

0:42.7

squawk in the middle of the night last night, so I may flag as this broadcast progresses.

0:47.7

Well that's your fault Andy, that's your boy, you should have trained him better, I don't

0:52.5

really train you, that's dogs, you nurture them, that's right, I always get those two mixed

0:57.1

up.

0:58.1

You're not in nurturing and in dog relations, you're right, you've got to stay the right

1:02.0

side of it, or do you?

1:03.8

Well anyway, I made it back from Bermuda Andy and it was great, it was fantastic to

1:07.9

be standing on one of the few remaining pieces of the British Empire, and it all comes

1:13.5

back to you, I just naturally started ordering people around there, it's just, you never

1:17.2

forget it, it's like riding a bike, so it is pretty much just Bermuda and the Falklands

1:21.2

that we've got left now, it's going to be the three of us mighty nations trying to

1:24.9

get back to where we once were, and I looked around at what kind of possible army they

1:29.2

have there that we can use to take over the world again, and I think our Bermuda militia

1:33.7

is going to have to be scooter-based, that's pretty much all they've got, and if you think

1:38.7

a viable military strategy is doing wheelies around people, then the future of the British

1:42.7

Empire looks great.

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