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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

🗓️ 15 December 2008

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The 56th ever Bugle podcast, from 2008. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver


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0:00.0

urrection

0:09.7

the bugle audio newspaper for a visual world

0:13.3

hello Bugleers and welcome to issue 56 of the bugle uh for the week

0:19.7

beginning Monday the 15th of December 2008 with me and his

0:24.1

Here in London and in New York City. It's Mr. John Oliver

0:29.0

Hello Andy. Hello

0:31.1

Beugles I might have to apologize for my voice a little bit today

0:34.5

It's a mixture of exhaustion at the end of a busy year an oncoming cold and karaoke. Oh dear two of those are at least partially

0:42.0

Excuseable. It's giving my voice a rasping quality, which I think is very sexy though Andy really John

0:47.8

I'm not feeling that yet, but oh yeah, not yet. Yeah, yeah, but I'm not saying anything seductive yet

0:54.1

I'm just sounding tired. It was our office Christmas party last night. It was a Rob

0:59.7

Riggles last day. No, it's probably the most manly man I've ever met. The person company very much

1:05.2

Included there, Andy. What do you mean? I benched 350. He don't even know what that means. Good point

1:13.1

Intribute. I serenaded him on karaoke with the song Wind Beneath My Wings and I think he was simultaneously

1:19.4

both moved and provoked. It's like a line who comes up to you and places his head on your shoulder

1:25.0

But knows that it retains the ability to kill you

1:28.3

So we haven't really had a bugle office party though, have we? Yeah, we've not had not had a bugle office party John

1:33.9

But we're still trying to find a venue that is equidistant between London and New York that isn't in the sea

1:42.4

What's the situation regarding the new mini-toss-alsman? Well, Andy because there was it was it was talk of this bugle

1:48.5

You've been willing in the in a hospital car park. Yes, I could easily have been

1:53.3

holding a pair of four steps and a tranquilizer gun, but

1:58.1

No, I haven't I know you often start these these bugles John with stories of who you've met this week

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