18: Is Downtown Still Hip? (with Saul Williams)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Alexei and Saul Williams rekindle their friendship, chat about making movies in Rwanda and what makes a musical a musical.
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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to podcast number 18 of the Alexysel podcast. A slight change of direction this time. |
| 0:16.1 | It is me talking to activist, filmmaker and musician, Saul Williams. |
| 0:24.2 | If you listen to an earlier podcast, you will hear about, we talk about Saul Williams before |
| 0:29.5 | and how we met. |
| 0:30.2 | I cover some of that ground again in the intro. |
| 0:34.9 | My intro to Saul. |
| 0:36.8 | It's an extraordinary event. And this is the first time, you know, |
| 0:39.1 | people sometimes say I'd like to have video of this. But I think this is an audio experience. |
| 0:46.2 | But this was the first time. Occasionally, I regretted that we didn't have a camera because |
| 0:51.1 | Saul Williams is the most beautiful person I have ever seen. |
| 0:57.0 | Frankly, he is so beautiful. |
| 1:00.0 | And the way that he moves, even though he was sitting down at one point, he was making a point to me, |
| 1:04.0 | and the way he kind of came towards me, and the extraordinary grace and power that just that |
| 1:11.7 | in that movement and the way he's dressed and stuff |
| 1:14.8 | he didn't just got up I mean |
| 1:17.0 | he's just an extraordinarily |
| 1:19.5 | beautiful human being |
| 1:21.8 | anyway so this is |
| 1:25.2 | podcast number 18 |
| 1:27.0 | Saul Williams and please excuse the sound quality Anyway, so this is podcast number 18. |
| 1:28.4 | Saul Williams. |
| 1:32.4 | And please excuse the sound quality of... Hi, Talal here. |
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