THE BUGLE REVIEWS 2025, PART 1
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🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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What a year it has been Buglers. To truly make sense of this last 12 months we're taking a month by month look at what just happened. January to June went a bit like this.
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| 0:00.0 | I will be in Australia for the next few weeks, hoping that the cricket can provide the distraction for everyone that it has so successfully provided for me since I was six years old. If you want to come to my shows, there is a bugle live in Melbourne on the 22nd of December where I'll be joined by Sammy Shaw and Lloyd Langford. And I'm doing the Zaltgeist, my stand-up show in Melbourne on the 23rd of December. and we've just added a possibly optimistic extra show in Sydney on the 3rd of January. |
| 0:23.5 | The 2nd of January show is sold out but please, please, please come on the third. |
| 0:28.6 | My UK tour extension begins at the end of January. |
| 0:31.0 | All details and ticket links at andy'saltzman.com.com. UK. |
| 0:45.2 | The bugle. |
| 0:47.5 | Audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 1:01.5 | Hello buglers and welcome to part one of your bugle Best of 25 Roundup Bugle annual yearly special review, or for any acronym users amongst you. |
| 1:12.7 | I'm Andy's Outsman, and I have for the 19th consecutive calendar year appeared on 100% of the issues of the bugle, unlike some people I could mention. |
| 1:18.0 | Shakespeare, for example, Mary Cury and Julius Caesar to mention, but two more. |
| 1:23.1 | I'm currently in Australia, which is a sad and grieving place after the terrorist atrocity at Bondi, yet another horrendous tragedy that has shaken and scarred this country and the rest of the world. |
| 1:29.2 | The continuing rise of anti-Semitism, something I, like you, had sincerely hoped the human race |
| 1:34.9 | would grow out of, along with other violent prejudices after the second millennium and specifically |
| 1:40.1 | the 20th century had given them a really bad rap, has been one of the more disappointing aspects of yet another global shit heap of the year. |
| 1:48.5 | This decade is going to have to pull up an Amazonian rainforest full of trees |
| 1:52.5 | in its last four years if it wants to end up not failing completely |
| 1:56.0 | and having to sit a retake, which, let's be honest, none of us wants to see. |
| 2:00.8 | It's been a year that felt at times like a rerun, and at other times like a whole new frontier |
| 2:06.0 | of ludicrous human behaviour. |
| 2:08.1 | Let's jump straight into January now. |
| 2:10.2 | Nish Kumar and Josh Gondromen join me, as the world braced itself for Trump, part two. |
| 2:15.9 | Top story! |
| 2:17.5 | This quarter of a century so far. |
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