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🗓️ 17 November 2008
⏱️ 36 minutes
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The 53rd ever Bugle podcast, from 2008. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver
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0:00.0 | The Bugal Audio Newspaper for a Visual World |
0:16.0 | Hello, Bugalers, and welcome to issue 53 of The Duke of the World, leading an only |
0:23.2 | audio newspaper for a visual world for the week beginning Monday, 17th November 28th, |
0:27.8 | with me Andy Zoltzmann in the picturesque town of London and in New York City |
0:33.2 | it's John Oliver. Hello Andy, how are you? What have you been doing this week? |
0:39.0 | What have you done? I've been what's happened in Andy's world this week. Not a |
0:44.0 | lot John I've been going through quite a lot of receipts. Good anecdote. Thanks |
0:50.0 | man and that is why you are the second highest paid public speaker in England |
0:53.8 | but I have, am I? That's bad news for other public speakers in England. I have |
0:59.3 | learned a valuable lesson this week. Oh John and that is no matter how hard I |
1:03.1 | as a comedian strive to find the perfect joke and I think my various efforts |
1:09.4 | to make sausage-based puns on the words worst and worst proof that I do strive |
1:14.1 | harder than a granite coated walnut. However hard I strive. It's Herculean, |
1:17.6 | Herculean. Nothing will ever be more entertaining for the human soul than |
1:22.3 | hearing a 22-month-old child say the word sausages for the first time. Where did |
1:28.2 | she do that? Well she was playing with a little doll's house. And she put a little |
1:34.9 | dog in a chair. I said that's the doggy eating and she said sausages. She's got it |
1:41.9 | she's got it. She's got it. She's got the timing. She's got the winning |
1:45.7 | smile after the punch line. She's every bit the comedian her dad could |
1:49.5 | never be. That's right. And there's been a bit of a blast from the past here |
1:54.3 | in America this week. Ex-Congressman Mark Foley was back in the news. You |
1:58.6 | may remember him because funny story. He was heading up a committee |
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