Controlling Romesh's Life & What Shanthi Looks For In A Man!

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6 • 715 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Join Romesh and Shanthi as they argue about spending time together, reply to awkward questions about dating, and react to Jameela Jamil's embarrassing story. Presented By Santander - Pay Smarter with a Santander Edge credit card. Find out more at ⁠⁠⁠www.santander.co.uk/personal/credit-cards⁠⁠⁠ A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen. 00:00 Family time 03:50 Weird Bedroom Talk 07:00 On Jameela Jamil 08:50 Reacting to Jameela’s DJ Story 13:00 Audience Questions: In-laws 21:10 Ben’s Apples 24:21 Shanthi Are You Dating? 28:56 Controlling Romesh’s Life 33:00 Shanthi Nails the Santander Line --- Send us YOUR questions and dilemmas! Email: ⁠⁠⁠podcast@rangabee.com⁠⁠⁠ Whatsapp: 07731623355 --- Subscribe for new episodes! Follow us on socials: ⁠⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/theromeshshow⁠⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome back. I'm trying to go for more higher energy.
0:03.2	Please do.
0:04.0	Welcome back to the Thursday edition of the Ramesh Ranganathan Show.
0:08.8	I'm joined as always by my lovely mum, Shanty Ranga Nathan.
0:19.6	Last saw her getting turfed out of a hotel in Epping.
0:22.9	But she's here and we are delighted to have her.
0:28.1	Every Thursday we look back at Monday's episode.
0:31.3	It's half your stories and tell us.
0:35.8	Mom shares one of her topics.
0:58.1	Basically, it's just me and my mum, I'm having a chat, except you're all invited. How are you, mum? I'm fine. Thank you, Roames. How are you? Really good, thank you. We had a nice ride up here. We travelled together, didn't we? Yeah. I always find that slightly nerve-wracking. It's not. But I always think that you are on the phone, so I stop talking now.
0:58.5	Yeah. Oh, I was genuinely about to say it felt better today, and I couldn't figure out why, but there's the answer.
1:04.4	Yeah, you were?
1:05.0	Last time we came on Thursday.
1:07.1	Yeah.
1:07.5	Then you said, oh, Sunday, Mom, you can come and see Charlie, Alex, Alex, his birthday that I did give the present.
1:17.9	Yeah.
1:18.6	I haven't called since morning to make, find out the time I can, because I had to make a appointment to come and see my own son. Okay. You didn't
1:30.2	answer the phone. Can I say, why is that? Can I say something in my defense? What defense? You're
1:36.3	free that day? I was, yeah. Yeah. I had arranged to watch the football with Alex. Yeah. And one of the
1:43.1	things I've tried to do is not look at my phone or I'm at home.
1:46.1	What did happen was half time came around.
1:49.2	Yeah.
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