125: Privilege, the Psychology of Economics and Moral Licensing (with Barry Ferns)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 17 May 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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Summary
Barry Ferns from Barry's economics joins Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti for a chat about his journey from homelessness to owning London's best comedy club, Angel Comedy, and teaches us things he learned along the way.
Massive thank you to Barry and his team for hosting us, filming and even editing this podcast! Talal's been travelling a lot for work lately and this wouldn't have been possible without Barry's superb team. They filmed us with three cameras so if there was ever a time to join the Patreon and watch the full video episode, it's now! Click here to join now! Check out Barry's Economics on YouTube, learn the truth about money and stop getting your financial advice from rich w@nkers who don't give a hoot about you!
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Okay, hi everybody, welcome to episode 125 of the Alexis Hale podcast. |
| 0:41.2 | The 125 Britain's first high-speed train. |
| 0:44.6 | Yeah. |
| 0:48.0 | 1-25, yeah, 135 miles and out. |
| 0:50.3 | So... That's camera, do we? |
| 0:52.2 | There's so many. |
| 0:53.5 | And Mars, that's on Barry. This is on all of his, and that's so many. Imagine that's not, Barry. |
| 0:55.4 | This is on all of his and that's on YouTube. |
| 0:57.7 | Okay, all right. |
| 0:59.2 | Yeah. |
| 0:59.7 | So we're doing something different. |
| 1:02.4 | We're going to talk called the Bill Murray in Euslington. |
| 1:05.2 | The reason we're doing this is when I basically when I look up my own podcast on YouTube to read the comments and revel in |
| 1:18.6 | the viewing figures, a thousand, two thousand. |
| 1:23.6 | So my, the algorithm offers me a much more successful podcast that I become fascinated by it's called Barry's Economics. |
| 1:31.4 | And this guy called Barry. |
| 1:33.3 | And what he does is, which are the ones I've noticed, anyway, the ones the algorithm that's pushed out me, is he, I don't know. |
| 1:41.9 | Well, I know more about him now because I'm sitting in his front room but I mean |
| 1:45.4 | um what it has always seemed to me and I've thought about this a lot is that um you know as a |
| 1:57.3 | Marxist you know you you look for you see the struggle for liberation in a way |
| 2:03.8 | kind of governed by these laws of economics. |
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