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🗓️ 2 August 2009
⏱️ 38 minutes
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The 84th ever Bugle podcast, from 2009. Written and presented by Andy Zaltzman and John Oliver
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0:00.0 | The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world. |
0:15.0 | Hello Buglers, all of you without exception are accordingly invited to listen to this podcast. |
0:22.9 | Buegel 84 with me Andy's ottoman here in the city of around 15 million |
0:26.9 | eyeballs, that's London and in the city that the Brits picked up and have swaps |
0:30.2 | you with the Dutch in exchange for a tit to little island in Indonesia called |
0:33.2 | Run good one Holland in New York City it's John Oliver. |
0:37.0 | Hello Andy, hello buglers. How you doing Andy? I'm okay |
0:42.0 | thanks John I'm okay. Get this and the last weekend I did five |
0:47.2 | Show's stand-up shows at a comedy club here in New York and as I started my final show on |
0:51.6 | Sunday night there was a woman sitting in the front row right at my |
0:55.2 | feet who caught my eye and I remember thinking, that looks an awful lot like Secretary |
1:01.1 | of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. |
1:05.0 | And then thinking, yes, it definitely is. |
1:08.0 | And it was, and the, and you know, initially it was slightly disappointed because my first thought was I really |
1:14.7 | think you should be busier than this. |
1:18.1 | I want you to be busier. |
1:19.7 | You're trying to overhaul health care in America. |
1:22.3 | I'm not begrudging you a night off to relax, but this seems like a bad choice. |
1:26.6 | I think that just shows how much America has changed. Because a year ago, the idea that someone from the cabinet |
1:32.4 | would be coming to one of my shows would be insane unless it was to check my immigration papers. |
1:38.0 | Or just run a little red dot over your heads and just wait for the rest to do its work. |
1:43.0 | It's pretty weird doing jokes about balls and then looking at Kathleen Sebelius. |
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