26: The History of Pineapples (with Blindboy Boatclub)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 1 August 2022
⏱️ 104 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, welcome to the AlexiSail podcast and we've got, well, the things, the different things that we do here on this podcast are just remarkable. |
| 0:17.2 | This was something that Talal was instrumental in setting up. |
| 0:22.9 | So you would like to tell us a bit about who we're going to listen to today, Talal? |
| 0:27.6 | Oh, yeah, man. |
| 0:28.8 | This has been a long time coming. |
| 0:30.4 | I've been trying to make this happen. |
| 0:31.5 | We've got Blind Boy on. |
| 0:33.9 | Blind Boy Boat Race, Boat Face. |
| 0:38.6 | Blind Boy Boat. I've known him for years, but I can't, yeah face, book club, blind boy boat. |
| 0:54.3 | I've known him for years, but I can't, yeah, you know, one of the things about, uh, the rubber bandits is, I mean, he talks about this in the podcast, um, which we're pretending hasn't just happened. But, um, uh, you know, I was always a bit confused because I've known the rubber bands, |
| 0:55.7 | have been to see them loads of times, |
| 0:55.7 | because they're on stage. You know, I was always a bit confused because I've known the rubber band's been to see them loads of times. |
| 1:00.9 | Because they're on stage with shopping bags on their heads. |
| 1:05.0 | And then you come off, so you're in the bar and you're talking to this Irish guy. |
| 1:10.4 | And you think, is this one of the rubber, you know, I've never really been sure who I'm talking to. |
| 1:16.4 | Is this one of the rubber bandits I'm chatting to or just some random, some random Irish bloke? |
| 1:23.2 | It's a unique kind of relationship in a way where you've got, you've just been watching somebody on stage for an hour. |
| 1:45.4 | And then, you know, one, they used my name, they see, you know, in the Rar, they used to put me in, Lexi Saly's in the Rar. And then, you know, one, they used my name. They, you know, in the RA. They used to put me in. Lexi Sele is in the RA. And then afterwards, you're chatting to somebody, but you're not sure it's them. You know, it's a, it's a strange relationship. And you want to, like, talk to them about their work and, like, tell them that you're a fan and all that. But it's.'s yeah but you're not sure it's not just some some bloke from Ireland but I do respect their choice to do that to keep |
| 1:51.7 | their own anonymity um absolutely it's again it's I mean it's one of many fascinating things about |
| 1:58.1 | them anyway so you go, you introduced this. |
| 2:03.9 | Well, yeah, we did have an amazing chat with Blind Boy. You're going to love it. |
| 2:09.3 | But first, we've got to let you guys know at home. We've got another live show coming up. |
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