Summary
The 30th ever Bugle podcast, from 2008. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver
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| 0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
| 0:18.0 | Hello Bugleers and welcome to Issue 30 of the Bugle for the week beginning Monday, |
| 0:23.3 | the 26th of May, 2008, that's right, the Bugle is 30, so it's thinking about settling |
| 0:28.8 | down while it's also panicking increasingly about the prospect of death as it suddenly |
| 0:32.6 | realises there are podcasts much younger than it that it doesn't really understand. |
| 0:37.1 | Also, the 26th of May, 2008 is 100 years to the day, possibly even to the minute, depending |
| 0:42.8 | on when you're listening to this, since the first major commercial oil find in the Middle |
| 0:47.2 | East. |
| 0:48.2 | And the rest, as they say, is history, exploitative, violent, embarrassing, stroppy, naughty history. |
| 0:56.0 | The find was actually made in South West Iran, but the rights of the oil were soon acquired |
| 0:59.6 | by, can you guess, Britain, it was us. |
| 1:03.4 | And just think, if as fair of minded nations Britain hadn't taken control of the situation |
| 1:07.7 | on day one, just imagine how much more of a mess the Middle East would be in now. |
| 1:12.2 | You're all welcome. |
| 1:13.6 | Happy Birthday Middle East oil, 100 today. |
| 1:17.1 | So for this historic 100 years of oil special in which we will be commemorating oil by |
| 1:22.6 | trying not to think about it or mention it as seen done in Procurets, I and his ultimate |
| 1:27.6 | am in London and in New York City, it's Mr. John Oliver. |
| 1:31.4 | Hello, Bughlers. |
| 1:32.7 | Hello, Andy. |
| 1:33.7 | Andy, last night I was coming home late at night and I turned the corner on my block and |
| 1:40.6 | there was snow everywhere and it turned out that Catherine's eating Jones is filming |
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