The Bugle! Audio Newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,353 of the bugle.

Still, the world's most reliably unreliable, weekly news-based historical record of the fumbling

craptitude that is the human race's efforts to make it through yet another millennium

without the entire planet having to be written off as a box job and sold for scrap.

I'm Andy Zaltzman, and like everyone else in the United Kingdom,

I too failed to win gold at the

World Athletics Championships over the past week in a bit although I fail to do so

way more convincingly than most not even close joining me today here in the very

heart of London just around the corner from where loads of stuff happened probably over

the last I don't know ages two people chosen by God to be the much sorry chosen by me to be on the bugle this week.

Nish Kumar and Sarah Barron.

Hello to both.

You have never grasped what the phrase God's chosen people

are supposed to refer to.

You have simply never grasped it.

In between mouthfuls of bacon,

you have failed to grasp the central idea

of what God's chosen

thing. It doesn't just mean people you hang out with, Andrew.

That's how it started.

Has anyone, Andy, has anyone ever accused you of having a God complex?

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