Voters hide ballots in locked boxes

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4.8 • 6.7K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

WHAT IN A YEAR OF 2020s JUST HAPPENED!?! Andy, Nish and Nato try to make sense of one of an election that is incomprehensible, even by modern standards.

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The Bugle is hosted this week by:

Andy Zaltzman

Nish Kumar

Nato Green

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0:00.0	The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world!
0:14.5	Hello and welcome to the Bugle US election result special 2020.
0:19.4	And here is our instant Bugle reaction at 12pm Eastern Time, 5pm UK time,
0:25.6	on Wednesday 4th of November 2020.
0:29.1	GAAAGH!
0:30.0	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure.
0:34.0	AAAAAAAAGH!
0:36.0	Hopefully that sums up pretty much everything that has happened over the last 24 hours.
0:40.0	Also, fundamentally, it can't end well, it can end at best, not completely.
0:45.4	Abominably, we will delve into this in greater detail.
0:49.6	I'm Andy Zoltzmann and I'm really starting to regret not using that magic lamp I bought
0:54.1	from a curious antique shop to ask for something a bit more useful than a spare pair of Elbow's,
0:58.4	they just clutter up the fridge, a bacon sandwich, I was hungry after putting the elbows in the fridge,
1:03.2	and the power to turn shoes into watermelons, in novelty wears off after about 15 or 20 pairs.
1:08.9	A bearing in mind that I summoned that genie in May 2016, well, apologies to the entire world.
1:15.1	Joining me to jab around in the still twitching yet somehow already rotten entrails of the 2020
1:21.5	American presidential election to try to harrush precise what it all means to pick the bones
1:26.4	from the rancid half-tune twice regurgitated sardine of despair that was election night.
1:31.8	Firstly, joining us from where it's all kind of happening.
1:35.6	The USA, in specifically San Francisco, it's NATO Green.
1:39.4	Hello, NATO.
1:40.4	Hello, Andy. Hello, Bueblers.
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