123: Bullfighting, John Hamm and more Touch of Evil
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 25 April 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti also discuss Camden, Lewes bonfire night and why dartboards are the new watermelon.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Hello everybody, welcome to our episode 127 123 of the Alexi Cell podcast. |
| 0:42.3 | Woo, woo, woo, whew, whew. |
| 0:48.2 | Calm down, audience, studio audience, please. |
| 0:51.0 | A posse, my posse, Montague, the dog. |
| 0:55.3 | Calm, calm down. |
| 0:57.6 | I told you to calm down, boy. |
| 1:04.7 | We, I think we're going to, I thought we can, you said you've had a lot more kind of comments on, |
| 1:12.2 | on the film really. |
| 1:13.3 | And there's no reason why, you know, film night has to, film club has to, you know, |
| 1:18.3 | be contained in one podcast. |
| 1:21.0 | There's also somebody's made, pulled this up, I think, or made a comment about, |
| 1:26.9 | our conversation about favorite supermarkets. I think, or made a comment about a conversation about favorite |
| 1:28.8 | supermarkets. |
| 1:29.4 | I think I know what it is and I think I feel bad about it. |
| 1:34.2 | You want me to say what I think it is? |
| 1:37.1 | Yeah, go on. |
| 1:38.8 | We didn't mention the co-op. |
| 1:40.7 | That's... |
| 1:41.4 | And the fact that we had the conversation at all. Well, that's yeah and the fact that we had the conversation at all well that's that's |
| 1:48.3 | that seems to be overly prescriptive really well but you don't get to choose we've had a couple |
| 1:55.6 | people mention the co-op which is totally fair And I think Debbie put it best in an email. |
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