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Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

S2 - Episode 30: Stephen Merchant

Hip Hop Saved My Life with Romesh Ranganathan

RangaBee Productions and Mr Box

Arts, Comedy, Music

4.82.2K Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2020

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Our very special guest this week is comedy legend Stephen Merchant. He talks us through some of his favourite rappers, current album listens and the classic hip hop bangers he grew up with. Enjoy!

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0:00.0

Well, hi. Chris Sweeney here from the Homo Sapiens podcast. The podcast that talks about the world

0:05.7

from a queer perspective with icons, allies and trailblazers such as Stephen Fry, Billy Porter,

0:11.8

Debbie Harry, Sam Smith, we're currently being sponsored by Sky Stream No Less. As we know,

0:17.8

life is complicated enough so the last thing you need is a complicated telly situation.

0:22.9

So enter stage left, Sky Stream. You can search by show name, actor or genre using your voice.

0:29.6

So, for example, I could just search Tom Hardy, Tom Hardy, Tom Hardy. It's never been simpler

0:35.6

people to get Sky and reap all the rewards with Sky Stream. You don't need a dish. It can be

0:40.6

delivered next day and you can cancel anytime. Search Sky Stream to find out more. You hear me?

1:00.0

Welcome to Hip Hop Save My Life, another lockdown edition. I am obviously as always joined by

1:11.9

Rue Match. How are you, mate? I'm good. How you doing? I'm good. I'm good. Your bid is starting to

1:17.2

look like what I would describe as dashing. I really? Peppery? It's quite Peppery. Are you going to

1:22.8

do anything about that? You're just going to keep it as is? What diet? Yeah. Yeah, I guess. What

1:28.6

I want. Like a nice blonde. If you're going to do blonde, I would commit to the head as well.

1:33.1

Just do that a lot. We'll see how much longer we've got left to the lockdown.

1:38.4

Well, it's lovely to see, but we are joined by a very special guest today. We're very excited.

1:45.0

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you. Well, it's not my, I don't present to you. He's here,

1:49.6

though. Steve and Merchant, how are you? I'm very well. How are you, my friend? Very good. We were

1:54.5

just commenting on how good your backdrop is. Thanks very much. Yeah, I don't want to do that.

1:58.7

This is very original audio podcast. I would assume in the traditional sense. I don't want to. Yes.

2:02.7

You know, I want to start describing the room, the way I look, because I feel like it's

2:06.8

dating a lot of people who are listening. They've got that. You're going to be staying.

2:11.0

You know, it's like something you're using the radio on someone says and they start

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