The Bugle - THE BUGLE REVIEWS 2022, PART 2

Episode Date: December 23, 2022

Andy introduces the second of a two part guide to 2022. In this episode we see the unravelling of British Prime Minister(s), the reaction to the passing of The Queen and the return of John Oliver for a birthday special.Featuring:Andy ZaltzmanChris AddisonNish KumarTiff StevensonAnuvab PalJohn OliverAlice FraserProduced by Chris Skinner and Laura Turner Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Hello, I'm Andy Zoltzman. welcome to the Bugles official review of 2022, part 2. In this episode we'll hear from Bugles' older new on the two big lizes of the year. Trust, and whatever the other one's actual surname was, as well as global chaos, coos and a cameo from John Oliver to Mark R. Anniversary. But before that, time for ads. But only kidding, a show has no ads because you fund all that we do. Please continue to support us at thebugelpodcast.com.

Now let's head to July. I was with Nish Kumar and Chris Addison as the world began shedding leaders at a truly alarming pace. The world is a huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge, huge Top story this week. Sri Lanka news. Well, if there's one hot fashion trend this year, it's not the return of the floral pantaloon or the diaphanus cacook or the Glockenspiel hat. It's the resigning national leader. Last week, reported exclusively on Boris Johnson's non-taiful collision with the

immovable bullwalk of his own infinite shittness. And more on that unedifying race to step into his rotting shoes later. This week, we've seen the Prime Minister of Italy, Mario Draghi, trying to resign after the collapse of his coalition government, but having the President of Italy refusing to accept his resignation, saying, well everyone, please stop f***ing resigning. And in Sri Lanka, President Regiapaksa has suffered the indignity of the people of Sri Lanka taking a dip in his own private swimming pool and embarrassment so scarring that he had no choice but to flee the country and disgrace and then resign. got to buy a Regiapacca's, Regiapacca's downfall. Alligations of spectacular levels of corruption, intimidation, cronies and parasitism, power grabbing,

large scale political and economic mismanagement, crack downs on descending voices, playing on deep-seated social and ethnic divisions. When will someone burn copies of that playbook? But really, it comes down to the fact that everyone took a dip in his private swimming pool and there's no recovering from that. There is no recovering from that as a leader. They did just take a dip in his private swimming pool and there's no recovering from matters there. There is no recovering from that as a leader

They did just take a dip in his swimming pool. They pet it his animals They pet they pet this I think this has to be the most adorable cool and human history It's that is a that is not a very hotly contest That is not a very hotly contested question. There is a, it's like you've said Bolt Sprint Records. There is a huge jump off from first place to second place. They swam at his pool, they petted his dogs, several of the children, because they were children involved. That's how whole of this coup was.

It was like a family day out to thought park. It was unbelievable. They petted his dogs, and several of the children played his piano. was, it was like a family day out to thought park. It was unbelievable. They've petted his dogs and several of the children played his piano. It's an utterly utterly charming coup and yet somehow even all the more damning for it. Having your children play some was piano. It's like mafia levels of intimidation. I quite like that. There were people with just, there was a woman who's been interviewed who brought her kids to the capital for the day.

Yeah, specifically for the revolution. That's really good parenting. I just wanted to have these experiences while they're young. So we're going to overthrow the government and then we're going to go to the aquarium. It's superb. It is in almost every extent. The polar opposite of the January 6th, the right in America. Yeah, it is the absolute polar opposite. It really is, it really is very wholesome. Nobody was rubbing shit on the walls or taking cable ties in to tie up democratically elected representatives. This was a good old-fashioned corrupt dick borderline dictator being removed from office and then everyone having a nice swim.

I sort of feel like we would never be able to do that sort of thing in this country because those coups dick a flare up there are. Well, you see, you say that in this, but I think it's the problem for us is the palace. We would never get very far invading a palace. They just have to put up a red rope, strong between two brass stanchions

and we go, we can't go past that's it and it's too easy for the police to trap people in there because the only way out is through the gift shop that is why it is never really happening in this country not since no that time not since Cromwell got the hump not since Cromwell got the hump. Not since Cromwell got them. The Prime Minister, Raniel Wick from a singer, is now following Roger Pax's resignation. The acting president, he was in his sixth stint as Prime Minister, which is quite a lot of stints, as I shouldn't say that at this point in Boris Johnson's political career. He might see that as a goal. But he's also facing calls for his resignation and indeed protesters set fire to his house,

which was not a good sign if you are then becoming acting president. A new president is due to be to be elected soon. It all came as a result of a sort of huge economic crisis, you know, inflation, power cuts, healthcare, collapsing due to lack of medicines, transport systems, failing fuel sales restricted. I mean, in some ways, you might say it's looking into the future, depending on where in the world you are. But I mean, it's very, I mean, kind it's very broadly, a tragic story of a country that has so much going for it. And apart from the people who've been in charge.

Yeah, absolutely. And I think we saw also as the classic fleeing of a badly derved, because the Roger Pax went to the Moldys and then Singapore this week. But it's not thought to be his final destination, Andy. So where might he go? I've put together a little guy to some favorite haunts you'll find

in the search histories of ex-tyrants. Being deposed, got beef? Then why not come to Argentina? You'll fit right in. World champion handball playing nation and noted geopolitical grudge holder, Argentina, is a fabulous choice for any despot fleeing from a baying mob with nothing more

than the clothes they stand up in and a private plane filled with half the national reserve. Extradition Treaty, they don't even have a regular Dition Treaty. Littleone, an extra one. Fun activities include spot the Kindle-Lil German gentleman before the kidnap squad from Mossad does, having a T-bone steak-induced myocardial infarction, and why not join in the traditional Argentinian pastime of staring furiously towards the Falkland Islands, or as they're known in Argentina, DIVALCLEAN DILANDS! Dubai! Dubai, whether it's British expats, in spite of being in the middle of Arabia, will only

buy hummus from the M&S food shop that you're after, or a sandy vagina. Air conditioning capital of the known world, Dubai, is the place for you. You practically can't walk down the street here without bumping into someone who's been chased out of their own country, so you'll always have plenty to talk about. Whether it's former Afghan president, Ashraf Ghani, or the sometime king of Spain, Juan Carlos, or just some ex-city trader from Chelsea, who retired at 40 and now spends his life drinking from noon and whanking himself to sleep, Dubai is absolutely lousy with people who regret their life choices in extreme but entirely tasteless luxury. Fun activities include dune surfing,

thinking that having a really tall building is important and not talking about ongoing human rights abuses. Label France, Zutador, La France adore la dictatur. That's right, as surprising as it may seem, the home of Liberty and Egalite has often extended the hand of Fraternite to the kind of people who just a few short centuries previously they'd been persuading to have a closer look at the fabulous new head-removing device they just invented. France has played host to so many X-despots that at one point in the early 21st century an estimated 5% of the population were former African dictators. What draws them there?

Perhaps it's the weather? Perhaps it's the food. Or perhaps it's just one of the few places in the world where you don't have to explain how to spell coup d'etat. Fun activities include using gold bullion to mitigate highly ingrained institutionalized racism, booing during the Bastille Day Parade, and trying to make girls think you're interesting by smoking galwars. And finally, what's got 120 million thumbs, a queen the size of Paddington Bear and an

unquenchable thirst for dirty money? Us guys! That's right! Have you screwed a starving population out of what was rightfully theirs? Their night's bridge is the place for you. You don't have to be a dodgyly elected ex-leader of a country to be welcomed here with open arms, just so long as you've got a boat big enough to land a helicopter on and a Broly. Fun activities include owning football teams, owning newspapers and owning the Tory party.

Well, we could roll out the full Piddoshy package for you. Yeah. We got game. That was Bugle issue 4,236 there. Now we move forward to the start of September and the arrival of a brand new fresh bouncing bubbly Prime Minister. Liz Truss, a figure surely set to reign for years and years. Assuming those years are on a tiny as-here undiscovered planet that circles the Sun at frankly ridiculous speed, I was joined by Josh Gondraman and Nish Kumar. and Nish Kumar. Top story this week, the United Kingdom will have a new Prime Minister tomorrow, as we were called, tomorrow is Tuesday,

today is Monday, Liz Truss, the former Foreign Secretary, until she gave up to campaign to be Prime Minister a couple of months ago, since when we've had no Prime Minister or Foreign Secretary, is to be the new leader of this country. She has is walking into power after being voted in by 81,000 out of 170 odd thousand Conservative members, less than half of the Tory membership voted for her. Soon that got to just over 60,000 votes. So 57.4% of the 82% of the quarter of a percent of the population who were eligible to vote voted for trust

is around about an eighth of one percent of the people of this country have elected our new prime minister, Nish. I know you're a massive democracy fan. You must have really enjoyed the stats on this, if you know and this is a huge day in the United Kingdom's history. Smoke is billowing out of the Queen's anus, and that can mean one thing, and one thing alone. We have a new Prime Minister.

It has been a contest that began in early July, and it felt like it's gone on for 750,000 years. But now, Liz Trust has won in a contest between her and Britishie Soonak. And the whole time people have been determining whether this contest should be deemed the lesser of two evils. It's more like a contest to determine Britain's neatest pedophile. It's not really the lesser of two evils. It's simply an unpleasant choice that we were forced to make and most of us didn't get

a say in it. Liz Truss won, as you say Andy, with around 81,000 votes. It's not a huge majority and the margin of victory was actually even narrower than had been predicted early on at the campaign. List Trust was supposed to walk this through without any problems whatsoever, as it is, just one by 57 to 42%. The reason that that margin has narrowed is simply her personality, her dreadful, dreadful personality.

A day before the results were announced, opinion polling suggested that 49% of people who voted conservative in 2019 believed she looked like a Prime Minister in waiting in the beginning of August, this dropped to just 31% by the 30th of August. Liz Truss is like a biopic of Malcolm X starring Jim Carrey in the lead role. The more you see of it, the worse it gets and crucially it was pretty bad to begin with. But this is quite extraordinary. So we've had this this leadership election,

then the voting process took almost two months since voting since voting open and and these are 170,000 of the most committed Tories in the universe. They are the members of the Conservative Party and still one in six of them couldn't be asked to vote. They've had almost two months and this is not like having to vote on a specific day in an election. They've had weeks, had weeks to do it. And still, only 82% of people voted. So less than a half of the Tories wanted trust as as Prime Minister.

Last night, Josh, I was lying in bed, very excited about the prospect of Boris Johnson, no longer being Prime Minister and then sick to my very core at the prospect of, let's trust being my Prime Minister. Sure. And there was an enormous thunderstorm. One megal rumble of thunder rattled our windows as the skies cracked with the whip of dune and I thought, surely this is a divine signal that appointing Liz Trust's Prime Minister has displeased all of the various deities who rule our universe. And to be fair,

that did follow an even bigger thunder clap, which I think was all of those deities, applauding the UK for ditching Boris Johnson. I mean, it's, I mean, in America, obviously, you've had political upheavals. Are people still interpreting the weather for divine signals now having more and more extreme weather events? I will say, you had an interminable feeling election decided by a few widely skewed votes and low turnout. Congratulations, you just elected a leader, American style.

I hope that was fun, that's kind of what we have going on. I do feel like weather-wise, right? It is pretty ominous. I think Prime Minister is not like a, it's too lofty a title at this point for what these people are. Especially because it feels like just with the apocalyptic nature of everything, we're closing it on the Omega Minister. That's what's on the horizon. I will say you had two months with like no prime minister. Boris Johnson was on the way out. They hadn't decided yet. I think maybe you just roll that forward. Go stride the whip. No prime minister. I think if there was a general election now and absolutely no government or Prime Minister at all was an option. I think that would, particularly on the first part of the post system, walk to victory.

She arrives in office in what can only be described as an absolute mother f***ing private in tray. There are real problems brewing. This strikes brewing, the TUC Congress, which is on the biggest meeting of trade unions in this country, is going to happen. It's going to start next Sunday. Liz Trust has already said that she promises to legislate within 30 days to restrict key workers' legal rights to strike. So already, that's starting off on a bad note. And I'll tell you what, nothing screams, I believe, a democracy. More than, we will restrict your ability to go on strike. This obviously concerns about the situation in Ukraine.

There's unlikely to be any shift in policy for that. This no suggestion that this trust is going to deviate from Boris Johnson's policy and continue to provide weapons for Ukraine. With Brexit, there's still the never-ending shit of Brexit continues to just pour force from the illness of this country. There's a debate coming up about the Northern Ireland Protocol Bill which Listeras actually managed to get through the House of Commons but it's likely to get stuck in the House of Lords. So it's possible that by the 15th of September, the Shield of Triggered Article 16, which was

suspend parts of the Northern Ireland agreement, which is a bad idea on so many deep levels. The biggest problem that she faced, oh, and also the global pandemic, it's something about a global fact, I don't know. I think that that's, someone's **** about, I don't know what's going on with that. But the biggest problem that she faces is the energy crisis with people's energy bills being about to double and in some cases quadruple businesses are facing closures and thus far this is the most immediate crisis facing the country and thus far Liz Trass has announced absolutely to do with the energy

crisis apart from her plan which I think she's just released which is her plan is to advice households to generate heat by huddling together whilst jacking it to pictures of Margaret Thatcher. Family. Family. He was talking about families. I was talking about families jacking it together, Andy. Thank you. Thank you. That was Bugle issue 4239. Now, the news happened fast this year, and we move on one whole episode now. And the final departure of Britain's own head of state. I was joined by Tiff Stevenson and Anuva Pal to document the reaction to the end of the Elizabethan,

the second and an era. A special interview this week with Sestrangeford's Pumperty Grafton, the Royal Crown Sergeant, Trainser of the Noggins since 1947, who gives the bugle his exclusive tips on how to strengthen your neck muscles to cope with a life of 24, 7, 365 crown wearing, plus added tips on how to sleep without your crown falling off Because I know the new king is an avid listener of this show also have some of the history of the

Neckasizers performed by monarchs to hone their crown supporting Musculature his a little snippets from that interview Well, and in the average crown weighs of course 120 kilograms Queen Victoria by the midpoint of her reign had a neck like an absolute will of east. It was quite strikingly beautiful in a certain light according to Benjamin Disraeli. That came of course from years of balancing a seal on her head for an hour every morning before breakfast on the advice of my predecessor, the Earl of Bakishia. This of course was the origin of the Kipper as a breakfast food. It was something that both a seal and a very secret

or a weapon petery, it was, they discussed, affairs of state, and going further back, the trend for elaborate necroths during the reign of the first Queen Elizabeth in the 16th century originated of course from her extraordinary large royal neculature. She noticed most potent of course, when she headed a flaming cannonball

off the white cliff of Dover directly into the Spanish flagship El Butragonio in 1588, the turning point in the defeat of the Armada. I'm afraid that the fun interview is in the bin. And can I just say this is my first time encountering royal commentators. Oh yes. Of course, they were out in all their glory. I think they had been waiting for years, years. This was their sort of major test match, if you will. And I think after day four, it was really difficult for them to say something inside four.

Yes. They're not repeatable. Day four? Day four? Day four. Minute 35. Yeah, yeah, 35. Yeah, that's better. That's better. That's better.

Yeah. One of my favorites, I think by D6, was a gentleman saying, it was a delight to meet him. She was wonderful. And he said this a few times. And then the main guy said, well, is there anything you have to add? And he said, well, she asked me, is that a door? And I said, yes, is there anything you have to add? And he said, well, she asked me, is that a door? And I said, yes, ma'am, that was the kind and warm person she was.

And I think that's when anecdotes have reached their complete nadir. You have to. I don't know. I think we can compete with that. The corgis had no idea of her status. That's good. Yeah.

And there was also the Queen's image in a cloud. Let's not forget the Queen's, we've seen the Queen's image in next to be telling me, she's on stamps. This is just ridiculous. You're seeing her on stamps. You're seeing her on coins. She's everywhere.

That was within, that was in the first day. That was like the first day of commentary on it, but actually on the first day, like on Monday just got actually got my period out of respect for the queen. It's what she would have wanted. I do actually call it treeping the colour, so that. Well, I mean, it was interesting, wasn't it,

that the things that were announced as being out of respect for the queen, and we saw this particularly in sport. So I mentioned that the test match I was out on day one. So the second day was cancelled. And then they resumed the game on the schedule third day. And they announced that they were continuing with the cricket as a mark of respect for the Queen, but to be able to pay tribute. And there was kind of moving minute silence and various other things at the ground pay tribute and there was a kind of moving minute silence and various other things at the ground and Prince Philip was a big cricket fan and supporter of various cricket and charities in his time. But football cancelled all of

its games out of respect for the Queen. And then boxing was cancelled, but rugby carried on. I don't know what that you know, what that says about the relative levels and styles of violence that were and were not respects for the Queen. Then on the resumption of football, Liverpool scored an injury time winner to beat Dutch champions Iax as a mark of respect to the Queen, whilst Tottenham Hotspur lost

the sporting Lisbon also as a mark of respect to the Queen. And Chris, I know as a Tottenham Hotspur player, I mark of respect to the Queen and Chris I know as a Tottenham hospital, you know we look up on the Queen as an icon of Stability and continuity and I guess Spurs is defeat to Lisbon was a kind of a gesture that the Queen You know exemplified the fact that some things in this country must never change some traditions are Invileable and and Spurs losing important for all matches Is that how you interpret it? I was actually blaming Prince Charles for our defeat.

I was like, for once I've got a new target. Sorry, King Charles. Come out please, get off this island. You were at the cricket and the surely, surely when you were at the cricket and they announced it, did one person go, well, she had a good innings? Well, you know, there was a genuine outpouring of emotion around the country as well as a lot of kind of, performing, performative, excessive respect paying, various TV journalists making sure they were filmed whilst paying their respects. And some really weird things happen to us all centre parks, the holiday parks, they incur

the fury of their customers by announcing they would be closing their venues on the day of the funeral and telling the people who were staying there to stay somewhere else, which was not ideal given that centre Park as a holiday destination is already the somewhere else that people were staying. They then backtracked appropriately because what we know about her Majesty of the Queen is she loved having somewhere to stay and ideally with a water slide. In October the Bugle Turn 15, in the early days I co-hosted the show with one of the most promising comedians to come out of the Midlands region of England for many years. John Oliver, he returned for one week this year to toast our longevity and answer your questions. Hello Andy, hello bugles!

It wasn't honour it was to share Buckel with you for eight years, and it was like being on an international space station, but on the ground, and in two different countries. Honestly, that metaphor fell apart instantly. But it's still one of the most moving things anyone's ever said to me, John. It was just a sense of being in a very confined space. Does that make sense?

Just the remorseless futility and claustrophobia. Yeah, the kind of aggressive silence occasionally. Yeah, that made you feel like you were truly alone in the universe. It's a glorious eight years. Well, I mean, I like that probably mirrored the aggressive silence we had at, for example, our Edinburgh Preview in York. But I believe so. Yeah, I think I've had a lasting appreciation for the different kinds of silence due to the work that we were able to do live together.

I think we can always tell this is an interested audience, this is an apathetic audience. This is a very angry audience, which is about to vocalize it. And in the case of York, I believe you had three, all three happening at once in different tables in York, I think. And unforgettable, of course, the space in Docklands. Yes. 2004, the Night England Luster Portugal

on penalties in the European Championship. Yes. That was a silence very much caused by no one else being left in the room. That's right. After the entire audience had walked out. What it was, it was the most natural sound that that room has ever produced. It was really just the walls that were emitting their kind of silence as our voices were echoed back from the flat surfaces in that room. Voices at that point saying, shall we still continue?

At what point are we just entertaining each other? And of course, the answer that was at all points. And that was very much the joy of podcasting with it, yes. That's right. Vehicle for people who could only entertain each other. Exactly. It removes the problem contextualisation that an audience could provide. So that was 2004. The legal came into being, if I've done my math rightly,

2022 minus 15 in 2007. So let's go back in time. Yeah, let's leave the stats to me, John. Let's go back in time to 2007. Now, at that point point you had already left the United Kingdom to try and crack it as a gold tender in the NHL, if I remember correctly. Indeed, that was the dream. Yeah. I was about to host the hit 12 series of bomb hits for a bust on the BBC. So you know, our careers were in different positions and what they are now. I mean, what do you remember of your early time in America, those early bugle episodes? Let's look gloss over the fact that I don't think I can make it in the NHL now.

I think the bar mitzvah or bust dream, there's no need for that to be dead. That's as good an idea now as it was then, right? Sorry, what was the question? I was so open about bombets for a bus. And just what potentially that game show, if it is a game show, I don't know how you've envisioned it, would involve around your game show, either you, basically, you have your bombets for all you renounced, do you, I don't know, the bus counts as in there.

It's a good show. I'm already interested and you've not explained anything about it to me. Well I mean that's, you know, you've been in television a long time, John. You know that a good title can be enough to take a show a very, very long way indeed. That is true. If you want more of John head to your local charity shop and see if they have the smurfs on DVD. Let's move to November now when I was joined by Chris Addison and Alice Fraser, and the talk of the town was Elon Musk.

Well, Twitter news now, and yes, Twitter for those who have not heard of it, the 21st century equivalent of standing in the middle of a roundabout with the trousers around your ankle, screaming at traffic and rubbing radioactive paint on your crotch. Has been brought by Elon Musk. Now, Alice, you for many years have kept Google listeners informed of all the coming and goings and Elon Musk's life and brain. What the f*** is going on with him now?

And as you know, amismorised by Elon Musk, Elon Musk, a baby's idea of a grown-up, you know, all of the money and resources in the world and he's using it to send cars to space like the Wang fantasy of nodes that wish they were brave enough to be arseholes. And he has now bought Twitter. And he's throwing his weight around, he's brought in other

programmers, he's decided that he wants to revolutionise Twitter by making it more Twitter than it's ever been. The problem here, and among many other things, is he's suggesting that verified users need to pay to maintain their verified user status, that in order to have a premium Twitter experience, you're going to have to pay money. And this is the core issue at the heart of this purchase of Twitter, is the relentless urge to be a landlord. If you want to make a premium Twitter,

what you need to do is ruin the general experience of Twitter to such a degree that people will pay to be out of it. It's the same thing that leads to airport lounges, it's the same thing that leads to the IP clubs. If the airport is fine, you have no need for a lounge. What counts as innovation for a billionaire is making the world like it is for them all the time, but only for people like them.

He's bringing in coders from all these other programs to deal with the Twitter code. And the problem is that Twitter is not a tech product. Twitter is a nightclub. Twitter is a people product. There's no innovative code in Twitter. Twitter is selling the addiction of Twitter of people like Stephen King and Elon Musk back to themselves.

There's no innovative moderation algorithm. And if there were, Elon would already be deconstructing it in the name of this glowing ideal of absolute unregulated free speech. The equivalent in sophistication to a 19-year-old libertarian. This free speech idea has been ruthlessly proven to lead nowhere good by places that already exist on the internet, like Fortschap. The moment he bought it slurs went up on the platform, which you always know is a good

sign. You know that's a good sign that you're doing the right thing. The moment you buy a platform, people start using the N word more. Okay. And it's kind of extraordinary. Is that you bought it for a huge amount of money, said he wasn't gonna buy it,

and he was kind of trapped into buying it. Since he took it over, he told all the coders to print out their last 30 days of coding, then torn to shred their printouts, then sacked a load of them, he wandered through his office carrying a sink, and he's got rid of half of his senior executive. So basically, what we have with Elon Musk is someone who had he been born 2,000 years before he was, would have ended his life with his a'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r ffodd yw'r f of a functioning democracy and looking at the state of free speech around the world, it might be the bedrock of a functioning democracy, but that bedrock is radioactive and it is poisoning

democracy from within. I feel like he was wandering around, well he was wandering around the halls of Twitter with the sink so that he could just look over people's shoulders and say, I have a sinking feeling and then they have to laugh because he's the boss. Well, he literally didn't, he post, let that sink in. So you went into Twitter. Yeah. Twitter is sort of now run by the least funny person on Twitter. That is a hotly **** that's the title.

Oh yeah. Yeah. No matter what he does, I just whenever I see him, I don't see thetie type man. Oh yeah. Yeah. No matter what he does, I just, whenever I see him, I don't see the world's richest man. I just, I can't help thinking, do you wash your face in a deep fat fryer? What's going on there? I mean, OK, let's not make fun of how he looks.

He does look like the face of a man in a police sketch of a man. But I think the core issue is that he's selling himself as a representative of the war between engineers and the artistic class, the artistic class being people who have taste and good jokes and the engineering class, other people who actually get things done. The problem being that he does not get things done. What he does is he goes around and he blowvitates with lots of money until other people get things done for him. Apparently, he's a great engineer. I await one of his pig neural ink pigs to show me that he is. It's a spectacular fall from Grace, though, isn't it? If you think about Elon Musk, say three years ago, when all we really knew was that he likes

the idea of making Tesla open source and he was going to build all these batteries that he would explain how he was doing it and anyone could do it and this would solve the energy crisis and so on. That was when he was at his absolute, to go from that level of cool, just stop. Somebody should have sent him at that point, stop, stop, nothing you say from this point, nothing is going to better the things that you've already said. And it's just been a phenomenal ride without breaks downhill ever since that point. Yes, he lost his traction somewhere between Tesla's going to solve the climate crisis and we can make it make fart noises instead of horn sounds when you raise the beeping button.

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Now let us play you out with a clip from Bugle 10, our first ever Christmas where John Oliver and I revealed our Christmas wishlist, find more classic clips on our top stories podcast with new clips from our archive every day. Do have a happy new year, we will be back in 2023. Because I have a samurai sword, but it is for private use in my own personal blood grudges. I have to avenge the death of my ancestors Andy. They're all dead. I suspect foul play. All of them are dead. I will track down the perpetrator. Further and further back in my

family tree Andy, there's more and more corpses. I will have my vengeance. I will have my vengeance. What would you like for Christmas, John? I'd like a samurai sword. I thought you said you had one. I told you that you can't have too many. I wanted an imitation samurai sword because I love breaking the law in a petty way. I guess they're like golf clubs though. They're all slightly different. Although you're not allowed. I think the real samurai's aren't allowed more than 13 samurai swords and they're back at anyone time

Yeah, one of them has to be very lofted sort as well Personally, these are things on my Christmas list. I would like a giant working replica of Nadiya Komenech But it's got a bit least 30 foot tall I'll bear that in mind. I'd also like the power of life and death over the people of the northern hemisphere I'd like the world's largest watermelon. I would like... Okay. ...Pancryotitis.

I'd like my old bin back from the people at 53. Stop settling scores. I'd like the Queen Mother back from the dead. Oh, you're true. We all want that. We all want that. Taken from us all so tragically early, Andy. Other things I want, a ride on a dolphin, a trolley dash around the British Museum,

a game of table tennis with Hillary Clinton, a Portuguese accent. you