121: Trump's Threats, Kanye West and The Bund
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 11 April 2026
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti also discuss Israel's ongoing onslaught in Lebanon, late-stage capitalism, whether the moon matters and if running a red light is a moral issue.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello everybody and welcome to episode 121 of the Alexi Sale podcast |
| 0:39.0 | and |
| 0:39.9 | well it's been quite a week |
| 0:43.0 | we teetered on the edge of |
| 0:45.2 | nuclear |
| 0:47.0 | obliteration |
| 0:47.9 | Tuesday night |
| 0:50.3 | I suppose |
| 0:51.5 | and then the ceasefire on whenever it was Wednesday, which of course Israel immediately |
| 0:59.8 | broke as they break all ceasefires. |
| 1:03.9 | Truly, as you know, people often quotes Gramshy, you know, the old world is dying, |
| 1:09.4 | the new world is waiting to be mourned. |
| 1:11.7 | We are living in a time of monsters, and those monsters are Israel, the majority of its population, |
| 1:18.9 | and its armed forces who are addicted or dedicated to genocidal racist ideology. |
| 1:29.3 | So that's a problem. |
| 1:31.2 | I mean, I don't, you know, I mean, you see, you see many people struggling to interpret Trump. |
| 1:45.3 | And, you know, I have... |
| 1:47.3 | It's funny, you know, I think if, you know, |
| 1:49.6 | I mean, I think I know Stama, I know who he is, |
| 1:52.0 | I know where he lives, I mean, literally, |
| 1:53.6 | I know what kind of person he is. |
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