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Hello Buglers and welcome to Bugle 69 for the week beginning Monday the 30th of March

2009 with me and his ultimate here in the ancient Roman city of Londinium, and in the historic medieval village of

the Los Angeles, it's little Johnny Gerkin himself, John Oliver.

Hello, beuglers! There is nothing medieval about the city of Los Angeles and the other

that is a basic sense of morality. I just saw Los Angeles written down, I assumed it was a little

hamlet in Spain.

Well you are wrong. I am indeed out in LA. It is this second bugle from LA. Last time I was out in a

studio by the beach which I did in sunglasses cut off gene shorts and rollerblades.

This time I'm in a studio in downtown Los Angeles and I've got a tiny little dog in a bag and

shopping bags all the way down my arm. I'm tottering

around on high heels losing any perspective on the real world. Let him Rome.

There shouldn't really be too many differences between an L.A. Bugle and a normal

bugle. You'll probably notice that this is a more shallow, self-important, self-satisfied

bugle with some cosmetically enhanced features due to lack of self-esteem.

It will seem like a more glamorous bugle, whereas in fact deep down it's going to be quite sad.

Well, John, I appreciate you saying that, but what we've just done there is blown any

chance we had of getting Hollywood to make the bugle the movie. Yeah well yeah but this is

just saying that this is the first 300 million million bugle.

So also joining us today in the special bugle soundproof box.

I'm delighted to say that I'm joined here in London by none other than the 1960 Olympic

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