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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

🗓️ 12 July 2009

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The 81st ever Bugle podcast, from 2009. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver


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0:00.0

This is a Times Online podcast. The Bugle, Audio Newspaper for a Visual World.

0:17.0

Hello Bugle, and welcome to Bugle! And welcome to Bugle 81 with me Andy's ottoman here in

0:29.1

London and in New York City John Oliver.

0:32.1

Hello buglers hello and New York City, John Oliver. Hello, Buglers!

0:34.0

Hello Andy, it's great to be back.

0:37.0

Was it only one week off?

0:38.0

Yes.

0:39.0

Numerically, it was only one week off.

0:42.0

I've also had the week off this week and I went to quite a bit of baseball. I went to the Mets dodges on Tuesday and I was on Sports Center in the background. As Manny Ramirez got ejected from the game, you can

0:54.7

clearly see me jump to my feet, pointing in the direction to which I felt he

1:00.3

should be walking. And he walk that way.

1:03.0

My ideal choice would be on Sports Center at the top 10 plays

1:08.0

pretty much every day Andy, but if I can be on Sports

1:11.0

that's just rejoicing at someone else's misery.

1:12.6

And that's, that'll have to be enough.

1:14.4

That's fair enough, John, isn't it?

1:16.5

Because you know, you've had that reaction from people at your gigs, haven't you?

1:19.3

So why not give it back?

1:20.7

Pretty much.

1:21.8

Yeah. So this is Bugle 81 for the week beginning Monday the 13th of July.

1:27.0

81 of course, surely the most appropriate ever number for a bugle John because as I'm sure

1:31.8

our millions of Turkish speaking

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