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Khat, Donor Money & Being Told To Quit - Emmanuel Kisiangani & Bashir Halaiki | Coffee Pump (E120)

23 Aug 2026 · 2 h 16 min · S1 E120 · Explicit

Konnichiwa,

On this episode Emmanuel Kisiangani and Bashir Halaiki come through and we go from totally unserious to uncomfortably honest. We get into what donor money actually funds, why the beggar on the roundabout will still be there next year, and then the part I didn't plan on saying out loud: the people closest to me have told me to shut this podcast down.

We talk about:

– Mortal Kombat for podcasters and who beats who

– Khat as a functional stimulant and how normal it's become in corporate rooms

– The agencies that supply women at conferences, and what you're actually paying for

– Anxiety, stage fright and whether you can perform without a drink

– Why artists lean on alcohol and what it eventually costs them

– Clan totem animals and a full argument about bees, honey badgers and polar bears

– An Inconvenient Truth and whether the panic was ever proportionate

– Where NGO money really goes and why fixing the problem ends the job

– HIV numbers climbing again and what undetectable actually means

– Solving world hunger, and why throwing money at it doesn't work

– Organised begging and the kid who's been on the same roundabout for a decade

– Imposter syndrome and belonging in rooms you weren't raised for

– Being told by my father and my former boss to hang up the gloves

– Real podcast numbers, what this costs monthly, and what it actually earns

– Bash choosing comedy and radio over the engineering degree his mum wanted

– How online communities name themselves

– Acid trips, bad intentions and what plant medicine shows you

– The state of the opposition and whether anyone unseats the president in 2027

Hope you enjoy the episode.

Best,

Team Coffee Pump

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