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Hello, Buglers, and welcome to Bugle sub-episode 4,350A for away for August,

and preparing for our 18th birthday

Bugle live stream live spectacular on the 26th of October.

Details, all available at the bugle website, the buglepodcast.com.

In the meantime, for this sub-episode, let's take a look back at some classic

bugle lives from the recent past.

To take you through them, here is producer Chris.

Oh, what a seamless transition that was.

Thanks, Andy.

Best of the Family.

Now, let's start this episode in October 2020, where we did a festival show with

Nish and Alice, the very same legend

who will be joining us this October on stage. Has anything changed in five years? I hope so. Let's see.

Uh, top story this week, evolution and the states of the human species. Well, Nish, Alice, we are, it turns out, still evolving. I mean, when you look at the state of our species, and we are easily one of the most famous species of all time, of course, take that ring-tailed mongoose. I mean, you can't help thinking, we're a great species. We've compensated for our shortcomings, you know, a lack of horns, a lack of lethal fangs, lacerative claws, venomous snout pendages, the works, by using our superior brains to work out many and wonderful other ways of killing things and each other. That's the mark of a special species. But it turns out we're not finished.

Scientists have discovered that we're still evoluting.

We're developing new arteries and we're losing teeth.

Nish, I know you're a massive fan of human evolution and you've very much benefited from it yourself as a modern human.

Oh, I'm using my poseable thumbs right now.

Look at that.

Sensational skills.

Yeah, Andy, it's a...

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