120: Cycling, SNL UK & Evangelicals
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
From the Isle of Man to Beirut, ham-faced Sky News presenters to Jimmy Saville and from Manx cats to Jesus Christ - what isn't discussed this episode?! Tune in to not find out!
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Bhophaar Bhaar Bhaar Bhop Toe I'm Hello everybody and welcome to episode 120. We said it was 120 last week, but it's actually 120 this week. |
| 0:39.7 | So this is a kind of podcast equivalent of the great Tom Cruise film, Edge of Tomorrow. |
| 0:48.3 | From now on every podcast will be episode 120. |
| 0:52.1 | You will relive the same podcast over and over again until the enemies are |
| 0:58.9 | defeated yeah groundhog day in space what a great movie it is a great movie what brilliant |
| 1:06.3 | movie yeah yeah fucking top crew better and better the more I watch it. |
| 1:12.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:14.0 | Okay, then so we'll cover all the same talking points as last week then. |
| 1:17.6 | Should I get the notes from last week? |
| 1:19.1 | It's not like actually like the world, you know, it's not like the world has moved on really, has it, you know, genocide in Gaza. |
| 1:26.5 | You just did a recording with Michael Rosen and Miriam Mark Olis. |
| 1:30.4 | Yes, I have. |
| 1:32.2 | Fantastic. |
| 1:33.9 | It was really amazing. |
| 1:39.5 | Richard Sanders, it will be out on Double Down News fairly soon, I think. |
| 1:44.7 | Richard Sanders was soliciting titles. |
| 1:47.6 | I suggested Alta Caccas, which is Yiddish for old shit. |
| 1:52.9 | Oh, that's really funny. |
| 1:54.4 | That's really interesting. |
| 1:55.7 | I've never heard that before. |
| 1:56.6 | Yeah, he wasn't. |
| 1:57.3 | Yeah. |
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