When you co-cots are ready, off you go.

Hello, buglers, and welcome to issue 4,325 of the world's longest-running, most influential

world.

Last week, I was Andy Zaltman. Let's just run the diagnostics to see if I still am.

Yep, still Andy Zaltzman. Let's just run the diagnostics to see if I still am. Yep. Still Andy Zaltman, more so, if anything. I'm in the shed of Inviable Falshood. It is the 13th of December

2024. And this is the penultimate bugle of the first 40th of the millennium. I remember when

all this was Fields. And joining me this week, it is the ultimate blast from the bugle past.

Coming to you live, alive, unless you're listening to this in more than 200 years

time from now, and in no fewer than zero dimensions.

From the biggest of all apples, quite a long way too, from one of the six continents

that the Titanic never reached. It's the man who was gifted by Britain to the United States as From one of the six continents that the Titanic never reached,

it's the man who was gifted by Britain to the United States

as a gesture of reconciliation back in 2006

to mark the 230th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.

It's the former joint record holder for most issues of the bugle appeared in

his long since fallen off that particular podium. A man who's now appeared in fewer than half of all episodes of the Bugle appeared in... He's long since fallen off that particular podium.

A man who's now appeared in fewer than half of all episodes of the Bugle, but also in mitigation,

fewer than half of all Smirth's movies as well.

It is the no-time world pole vault champion.

The Nebuchadnezzar of news-based comedy.

The Crown Prince of Crapping on About Politics.

The John Wilkes Booth of Jovial Weekly Brooks. Sorry, that's scratch, that was one. It's John Oliver.

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