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I know Neil mentioned his podcast Why Would You Tell Me That once or twice when he was on The Bugle. I finally downloaded some of them and I really loved them. There is a little bit of bull shit, but also a factual part with some interesting guests. I highly recommend giving it a listen. You can find it on Acast and Amazon Prime has too. Probably some others as well.

Came upon this in the wild... the episode is about some non American sport, I think it's called cricket, minutiae. Give it a listen! or put it in the bin.

I really like the idea and execution of Top Stories...

But good lord, usually 3 minutes of ads, more on the end (which is especially bad if you're trying to binge episodes), it's WAY too much for a short podcast like this.

I, like anyone else who respect their ears, skip all that bullshit of course, and will remain annoyed every time I do.

Here's the real bullshit though - I recommend episodes to people, trying to show them something funny or even trying to get them into the show, and the acast episodes, on their own site, are somehow EVEN worse with ads, and they're unskippable!

I've gotten so many replies that they'd love to hear it but are absolutely not putting up with that bullshit.

Advertising is one of the biggest plagues on humanity and I know everyone needs to put food on the table but.... This is turning off longtime fans like me and especially new ones that I can't even get to hear the damn clip cause there's so many ads to sit thru.

Edit: I know this probably isn't Andy or anyone at the Bugle's choice, it's all acast, but damn man. I hate the enshittification of everything.

Edit2: Guys, like I said, i don't mind skipping over the ads, as someone who is used to listening to podcasts. My point is it's NOT bringing in new people to make them listen to that shit.

Here's an example - my friend loves Conan O'Brien - never ever listens to podcasts, been telling him for years that if he misses him he should check out his podcasts. He called me the other day and said, "I'm finally listening to that podcast - they put clips of it on Sirius now, it's great!" /rollseyes

Top Stories should be accessible to NEW people, little short things we can share to bring people into the show. It's the absolute reverse of that right now, just sayin. No one but us fools are going to put up with 3 minutes of unskippable ads just to hear one clip.

Edit3: FFS, one more time for those in the back - it isn't about my convenience or ability to pay, it's about trying to share the show without having your listener sit thru 3 minutes of unskippable ads. It's incredibly stupid. It probably can't be fixed on Andy's end because acast is acast - they suck, they're one of the poster children for "enshittification".

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Brilliant!!!

Is there a good online google doc or similar where you can search for this?

That is all

Specialist Subject: The Bugle Series 1 and 2 with Johnny Showbiz!!

BBC1 7.30pm 5th January

Specialist subject cricket, presumably

Amused by the contrast between the in-network advertising opening two of my favorite Podcasts. "Producer Chris" Skinner's pleading, simpering for forgiveness, while he asks people to listen to Travel Hacker, begging for a return of humiliation if he has led you astray, "If you hate it, tell me.", and Off Menu's James Acaster's whining demand, like he's instructing his underlings to fetch his slippers, waving them off to their duty to "listen to it, pleeez." for Springleaf. With this level of dismissive, unapologetic confidence of his right to force people to do things they'll ultimately enjoy, can James Acaster even truly be considered British?

https://podscripts.co/podcasts/the-bugle/

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Is Andy going to do a Fuck Eulogy?

Hello all, I have a hazy memory of a segment on the old Bugle (ca. 2013 or ‘14) where a listener wrote in with a truly magnificent list of measurement comparisons, the kind that the media love to use—except it was pitched perfectly for John and Andy, e.g. “the amount of Amazon rainforest wood lost each day could form enough cricket bats to extend to Mars and back if laid end to end,” or something along those lines. Does anyone know in which episode I might find this?

The Oct 24th episode just starts in the middle, has F. U. Chris got into the cough syrup again?

Update: looks like it works now, T. U. Chris!

I think I have just found a Bugle travesty. I have been replaying every episode from the beginning and in episode 224 "Papal Proton Packs", Andy is referencing the horse meat scandal and how the Vatican is also involved:

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Andy: And a coincidental story emerging just this morning, John, the latest in the European food chain scandal, after it's emerged that contamination of beef products with horses spread across the entire continent. It has now been revealed that communion wafers used in many leading Catholic cathedrals have been found to contain not only the body of Christ, but also the bodies of some of his apostles. A wafer from Milan Cathedral has tested positive for containing the leg of St. Bartholomew, whilst others have been found to contain traces of Simon the Zealot, Phil, Tommy and Andy.

John: Well, that's probably all the fault of a Romanian disciple meat plant, Andy.

Chris: Stewdas!

Andy: So I think, John, after that section, I think we've probably added another 3 or 4% to our eternity in hell that we've built up over the years.

John: Once you get past 100%, Andy, the numbers are just meaningless.

Andy: I know, It's just no deterrent anymore.

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Why wasn't "Stewdas" not picked up on? A travesty I tell you, a travesty...

Has anyone else noticed any other missed pun opportunities in past episodes?