The World Drifts Into Anti-Semanticism
The Bugle
The Bugle
4.8 • 6.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
The APEC summit in San Francisco gets people onto the streets, except the homeless. Also, Bernie Sanders gets cross, the Middle East is very complicated, and David Cameron has a new job.
Plus, is there a god?
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This episode was presented and written by:
- Andy Zaltzman
- Nato Green
- Alistair Barrie
And produced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:10.0 | Hello, The Bugel, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:14.0 | Hello Buglers and welcome to issue 4,281 of the Bugel audio newspaper for a visual world, |
| 0:22.0 | albeit an audio newspaper in which you can't trust what you hear for a visual world in which |
| 0:26.8 | you really shouldn't believe what you see. Don't shoot the messenger. Or indeed, don't |
| 0:30.8 | shoot anyone just as a general piece of life advice. |
| 0:33.0 | I'm Andy's Altman, the undisputed champion of disputing things. |
| 0:37.0 | Oh, no, I've just lost my title by saying that. |
| 0:40.0 | I'm here in London, or as the Romans called it. That was the Romans before they founded |
| 0:45.4 | London after they invaded our God-given British land in 43 AD. Thank you Brussels |
| 0:51.4 | hashtag take back control and I'm joined today from San Francisco a city which |
| 0:56.0 | escaped Roman colonization by a mixture of luck geography non-existence at the time and |
| 1:00.8 | exorbitant property prices joining meining me from there, NATO Green, welcome back NATO. |
| 1:05.4 | Hello Andy, hello buglers. |
| 1:07.6 | How's, how have you been since you were last on a few happy weeks ago for this planet. |
| 1:15.2 | Miserable, alternate jags of uncontrollable sobbing and |
| 1:20.5 | binge drinking. |
| 1:21.8 | I did discover something Andy. I was you know a |
| 1:26.8 | politics is so stupid and we end up having to write about the same things |
| 1:31.1 | again and again and so do you have this experience where you're like, did I write this joke already? |
| 1:36.0 | And so I went back, I was going, went back to listen to older bugles to see if I had done a joke already. |
| 1:42.0 | And I was switching between a few episodes. |
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