Has 2024 Jumped The Shark?

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4.8 • 6.6K Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

South Korea tries a little martial law, France dusts off the guillotine, Joe Biden dishes out a special Christmas present. 2024 seems to have taken a laxative.

Andy Zaltzman is with James Nokise and Ria Lina

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0:00.0	The Bugle.
0:11.1	Audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:14.4	Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,324 of the world's leading and only audio newspaper for a visual world.
0:22.9	The Bugle with me, Andy Zaltzman shortlisted for the Nobel Prize for Unfounded Statements,
0:28.2	and that is just an example of why.
0:30.0	I'm here in the shed of incontrovertibly arguable truthlessness.
0:33.0	It is the 5th December, 24, and I'm joined by two people who, unusually, in this day and age,
0:38.8	have never declared martial law, as far as I'm aware. Firstly, in Edinburgh, it's James Nekisa.
0:45.4	How are you, James?
0:46.8	Good, Andy, I have terrible news for you. I once got drunk in 2008 and declared martial law in
0:52.8	Wellington. Oh, right, okay. How did that pan out?
0:56.2	I was hanging upside down in a tree in the centre of the town, drunk, dressed in a Halloween
1:01.3	costume as the crow, but declaring myself the pigeon to avoid copyright issues.
1:08.0	Also joining us here in London Ria Lina
1:11.2	Hello Ria how are you
1:12.2	Hi I'm afraid I actually just
1:14.7	declared martial law on Tuesday as well
1:16.6	But I think that given the news
1:18.9	My
1:19.6	My declaration was
1:21.6	Overshadowed by someone else's
1:23.6	That's a real
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