88: What's Your Bus Route? (with Seb from @sebbiebikes)
The Alexei Sayle Podcast
Alexei Sayle and Talal Karkouti
4.8 • 610 Ratings
🗓️ 28 June 2025
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody. Welcome to what is episode 88 of the Alexis L podcast, 88, of course, an interesting number. We think immediately when we think 88, we think of the Alexis L. Podcast, 88, of course, an interesting number. |
| 0:22.1 | We think immediately when we think 88, we think of the German |
| 0:25.3 | Acht, the famous flak gun, which was later adapted as a formidable anti-tank weapon, |
| 0:33.9 | the 88-millimeterleck Panzer, |
| 0:39.2 | which also, of course, |
| 0:41.2 | equipped the King Tiger, |
| 0:43.2 | the Tiger 2 tank, |
| 0:44.9 | legendary 88, the only weapon, any anti-tank |
| 0:47.2 | weapon that the Allies really feel. |
| 0:49.3 | Bloody hell. |
| 0:50.6 | Act 88 millimeter. |
| 0:53.3 | That's what... um, what? |
| 0:55.1 | Directors keep telling me on set. |
| 0:57.4 | So they're talking about those tanks, are they? |
| 1:00.3 | What? |
| 1:01.0 | When they say cut, act, act. |
| 1:05.8 | They're talking about tanks, oh right, I swear. |
| 1:08.4 | Anti-tank gun, anti-tank, it was an anti-tankank gun. Well, sorry, I excuse me for zoning out while you talked about military equipment. But it's also an angel number, Alexi. Do you believe in angel numbers? Of course I don't. Well, 88 is a sign. It's lucky in Chinese as well, isn't it? I think 80 is a lucky number in Chinese. |
| 1:27.6 | It's a sign of great success, abundance and prosperity. |
| 1:31.8 | So this is the episode that's going to make us rich. |
| 1:34.5 | Yeah, this is going to finally put us over the top. |
| 1:38.5 | But I have to apologise for last week, |
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