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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

77: Kungfusional

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alexei didn't do his homework so we'll be discussing 1981's Mephisto next week!
Instead, Alexei and Talal read questions from our loving Patreon supporters...

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody. Welcome to episode 77 of the AlexiSail podcast and with me and Talal Kharkuti.

0:21.1

Hello. Hello.

0:21.7

Hello.

0:22.5

And I haven't.

0:24.3

Should I say good and tag?

0:25.6

Should I say good and tug?

0:29.0

My frau?

0:30.3

Yes, I haven't watched.

0:31.6

I know I said we were going to talk about Mephisto.

0:34.2

I've only just started watching it.

0:35.7

I found it quite.

0:54.5

It means it's styl just started watching it. I found it quite, um, it means, it's stylistically very, uh, of its time in a way, isn't it? I mean, that's where he's doing the jazz dancing in his underpants. Yeah. At the, um, and wrestling his naked girlfriend. Yeah. Yeah. There's a lot of that. And it's obviously very slow.

0:57.6

It's a 1981 film, European Art House film.

1:04.0

It's slow, and I, but the more you get into it and the more you kind of fall in love with the characters.

1:04.4

Yeah.

1:06.4

It comes in Grosink.

1:07.1

Yeah.

1:11.0

Well, maybe I'll watch it and then we can talk about it next week.

1:12.4

You were very taken with it.

1:16.0

I did really like it because it's just very current,

1:24.0

because of how many of our idols are silent or going along with fascism and genocide.

1:28.5

So it's very interesting in that aspect.

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