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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

118: More War, Israeli Shawarma & Protest Songs

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 14 March 2026

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Howdy! This week Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti discuss going viral, unrecognised treason, Oxford comedy producers and listen to some listener-submitted music.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Okay, hi everybody and welcome to episode 118 of the Alexis L podcast.

0:34.8

We are in week two, I guess, of the U.S. and Israeli illegal strikes on Iran and also, of course,

0:49.7

Lebanon, southern Lebanon, the Becker Valley, parts of Crystal Palace.

1:00.2

Interesting developments.

1:01.6

I mean, I think it's really interesting.

1:02.7

I mean, it's really interesting, I think, how this war has gone. And I also think it really highlights how,

1:16.1

even more than the Israeli genocide in the way, how our media are self-censoring. So from the

1:24.7

websites or the podcasts or whatever, the videos that I have looked at of people I trust,

1:30.7

and particularly Richard Medhurst at Electronic Into Fadr and also John Meersheimer,

1:41.3

Professor John Mearsheimer, the University of Chicago, also talking to Chris Hedges.

1:48.0

The situation, it seems to me, which is completely underreported in or not completely not

1:56.9

reported in the Western media, is that the Iranians have taken out all of, and this is what

2:04.7

Richard Medhast certainly said, have taken out all of the US forward radar stations in the Gulf

2:16.6

country. So these are radio stations that essentially are the front line of the,

2:21.3

of Israel's Iron Dome defenses.

2:26.2

And they just, you know, I mean, the way that these,

2:29.9

these bought and paid for, these analysts that they have on the BBC and Sky,

2:34.7

just they're not, you they're not reporting the situation.

2:40.2

So this is my understanding.

2:42.2

The Iranians have taken out all these forward radar bases.

2:45.4

So the Iron Dome, obviously the Iron Dome is also,

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