Idris Elba

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

The Ringer

Comedy

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Idris Elba knows that life begins at 50 in Ibiza. Amy hangs with the actor and talks about his work as Stringer Bell on 'The Wire,' regional English accents, and DJing until 4 a.m. Host: Amy PoehlerGuests: John Cena and Idris ElbaExecutive Producers: Bill Simmons, Amy Poehler, and Jenna Weiss-BermanFor Paper Kite Productions: Executive producer Jenna Weiss-Berman, coordinator Sam Green, and supervising producer Joel LovellFor The Ringer: Supervising producers Juliet Litman, Sean Fennessey, and Mallory Rubin; video producers Jack Wilson, Belle Roman, Francis X Bernal Jr., Caroline Jannace, and Aleya Zenieris; audio producer Kaya McMullen; video editor Drew van Steenbergen; and booker Kat SpillaneOriginal Music: Amy Miles This episode is brought to you by Degree Deodorant. Grab the original Cool Rush at Walmart or Target today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	exclusively on Disney Plus.
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0:06.2	The multi-award winning series, FX's The Bear, is back for a brand new season.
0:11.4	Upon my signal, unleash hell.
0:15.4	And every second counts.
0:17.8	When that shows zero, this restaurant ceases operations.
0:21.8	FX is the bear.
0:23.1	New season now streaming exclusively on Disney Plus.
0:27.1	18 plus subscription required season C's apply.
0:30.0	Hi everyone.
0:30.7	Welcome to another episode of Good Hang.
0:32.6	I'm very excited about our guest today.
0:35.0	It is Idris Elba.
0:36.7	Idris is in studio. And we're going to talk about a
0:40.6	lot of great stuff. We're going to talk about growing up in the 80s. We're going to talk about
0:45.2	Stringer Bell, of course. We're going to talk about cringe comedy. He's going to try to convince
0:51.7	me to go to Abitha. So there's going to be a lot of fun to be had.
0:57.0	And we always start our podcasts the same way.
1:00.0	We ask somebody who knows our guest to zoom in and give us a question so they can kind of
1:07.1	help me get to know them.
1:08.1	And we have a real big star zooming in today.
1:11.9	It is John Sina.
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