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Hello Bugleers and welcome to issue 34 of the Bugle, the world's only and leading audio

news paper for a visual world, issue 34, that means that the Bugle is now older than

me. This is for the week beginning the 23rd of June 2008 with me and his Ultraman in the

Fair Fair City of London and in the equally fair city of New York. It's John Oliver.

Hello Bugleers, even fair Ultraman, even fairer. I mean, Bugleers, you should know that Andy

has spent the last 15 minutes complaining about the echo in his headphones. It has been

a colossal diva's drop. You sound a lot more right at Carey Andy, not in a good way.

This is also Andy's third attempt at introduction. You don't need to tell people that. That's the

beauty of being able to edit stuff. Yeah, I just don't want to lie to him. I think we

as the perpetrators of the Bugle, to suddenly say that you don't want to lie to our listeners.

After 33 editions in which we've done little but lie to our listeners, I think that's a

bit of a rip. In this week's edition, John, I will be attempting and hopefully completing

my most contrived ever joke. Right. Wow. That's a hell of a claim, Andy. That's a big

claim. I'll see if you can spot it. As always, some sections of the audio newspaper

go straight in the bin. This week, a fishing ethics section, including a shark wouldn't

throw you back onto the land. So why should you throw his fishy little compadres back

into the water? Is it okay to fish for dolphin if you're a really good cook? Rod's net or

bare hands, how to choose the equipment your fish would most like to be killed by. And

who should set fishing quotas for the Atlantic, the EU or Mighty Poseidon or the fishermen?

And why should the fish have any say in the matter? If they're bothered to evolve an

ass that they could then get off in order to evolve, they wouldn't be in this mess. Was

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