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The Alexei Sayle Podcast

8: Safeword

The Alexei Sayle Podcast

Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti

Society & Culture, Comedy, Government

4.8610 Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Alexei poses an interesting and highly likely Keir Starmer theory before he and Talal take on the massive pile of emails and friendship applications.

Topics include running over hippies at Glastonbury 1984, police motorbikes, Alexei’s relationships with Sting and Penn & Teller, Tom Cruise films and the question on everyone's lips: What the Hell is The Alexei Sayle Podcast?

Get your email/friendship application read out on the show by sending them to alexeisaylepodcast@gmail.com

Subscribe to Alexei's new YouTube channel here and join him for his Lockdown Bike Rides.

The Alexei Sayle Podcast is produced and edited by Talal Karkouti
Music by Tarboosh Records
Photograph from the Andy Hollingworth Archive

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello everybody, welcome to podcast number eight of the AlexiSail podcast.

0:11.0

Now, I think that me putting all that effort into talking to Stuart Lee in the last podcast

0:16.3

has frankly made me complacent.

0:19.9

So I've done very little preparation for this.

0:23.3

Don't look at me like that.

0:27.6

Zencaster provides a video link now and Talalas looking at all.

0:32.6

Anyway, well, I've put, you know, anyway, I put, you know, it was, I thought it was a big achievement getting Stuart on. So, um, kind of, just kind of busk this one, really. I would just, um, like to open with the standard invailing against, uh, Keir Stama, the leader of the Labour party. Kier Stama, of course, is the Labour Party is now 13 points behind in the polar. I remember Tony Blair saying

0:55.8

when Corbyn was like 8 points up, there should be 20 points up. So Kier Stama against Theresa.

1:01.7

Mike, Kier Stama is 13, at least 13 points behind a government that has killed 150,000 of its own

1:10.3

population.

1:11.6

So I think that's quite an achievement.

1:13.4

But so what I'm wondering about is what people,

1:16.0

a lot of people now are coming around to my view of Gier Stamer.

1:19.6

I think that he was lauded by the right-wing press,

1:22.5

which is all the press, basically,

1:24.2

in the first place for being a new broom and so on,

1:27.3

but they have become dissolution with them. And particularly there's a very Blairite columnist in the first place for being a new broom and so on but they have become disillusioned

1:28.5

with them and particularly there's a very Blairite columnist in the independent called John Rentoul

1:33.0

aptly named John Rentoul who always says something shitty about Kirstal and also I think

1:40.5

Navarra media which is a website that I like a lot,

1:45.6

they've got some very interesting things to say.

1:48.8

So what I'm wondering is what is his purpose?

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