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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

79: Mutual Borefest (with Tadhg Hickey)

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

Comedian, activist and lovely chap Tadhg Hickey joins the show to talk Palestine, Aldi, touring the Middle East and how Graham Linehan's downfall is just a big shart.

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The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, everybody, welcome to episode number 79 of the Alexis L podcast.

0:18.9

And today we have a guest, Tyg Hic Hecky is that right am I saying that right?

0:23.9

Yeah it's beautifully pronounced yeah thank you thank you and so we know so just like

0:28.5

jump right in here we I think we've come you know you partly come to our attention

0:34.4

because we are activism for Palestine but I'm also interested in I guess how

0:39.3

you get start you know your journey as a as a comedian journey a jeanie I wish there was no

0:46.2

word for that really but there isn't journey unfortunately is the word um whether you you know

0:52.9

you're how you become a comedian in Ireland really really. What's the scene like there? And then also you're, what does Graham Linahan think? He doesn't like me at all. Yeah, he doesn't like me at all. You see, he loved me. Yeah. Did he love you first? He loved me first and now he hates me, I think. He probably just didn't know me first. So, like, I feel jealous of you there that I'd never had that kind of arc. Yeah. He just came in hot with the hatred for me. Yeah. No, I have that. I have that. It probably happens to Talal. You probably, you know, these young men, I take under my wing and it starts out, it all goes well.

1:29.3

And then at some point it goes horribly wrong, really.

1:33.5

Oh, I can't wait to start doing that.

1:35.4

That's my dream.

1:37.1

Oh, what's going to be my big controversy then?

1:40.2

I don't know.

1:41.3

We seem to have avoided it so far.

1:43.4

But it's a, it's an age, you know, when you, there's a theory, there's a kind of youngy and theory that seasons of a man's life that when a man reaches his kind of 60s, he becomes, he becomes the teacher, you know, he stops striving to, to, to, to do stuff, to accumulate, and instead becomes the, you know, the, you know, stops striving to to do stuff to accumulate and instead becomes the the you know the kind of

2:05.0

sage of the village you know and takes young men under his wing and instructs them and I've tried to do that

2:11.5

several times and it's ended so badly I can't tell you how oh man it you how, oh man, it's just, I mean, luckily, it's, we've

2:21.0

kept out the courts and sort of exclusion orders and so on and so far, but it's, it's not

2:26.4

gone, one woman, but mostly men. It's, oh, it's not gone well.

2:31.8

Well, like, if you could put your finger on, why it doesn't go well?

2:34.6

Like, what is it thinking?

2:37.1

Excessive neediness on my part, really.

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