STEPHEN FRY (thou shalt not question Stephen Fry) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 8 May 2026
⏱️ 64 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Stephen Fry, originally episode 440 from 2022-05-02.
Original writeup below:
Simply using the term ‘national treasure’ doesn’t do any kind of justice whatsoever to who or what Stephen is, does and has done, of course. But it’s pretty tough to dispute. Long term (and casual) Pip listeners will already know the line ‘Thou shalt not question Stephen Fry’ - well, Pip breaks the holy rap commandment and does just that, and it’s a joy to behold. Naturally there’s only so many tips of icebergs one can introduce in an hour, but rest assured that you get the full Pip and Fry experience including pandemic times, social media, Greeks and Romans and history as a whole, tattoos, religion, politics - it’s like if you had a dinner party with him but condensed into a lunch break. So enjoy this hang time with Stephen and let’s hope that it only leads to more! Enjoy.
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo Clue, in Mo Clue, in Mo Clue, it's Friday, it's distraction pieces, rewind time, |
| 0:06.2 | and what a big one. What a huge, huge episode. I'm rewinding to four years ago when I sat down |
| 0:13.0 | to chat with Stephen Fry. It was, I almost ended the podcast here because of the line, |
| 0:18.9 | Thou Shall not question Stephen Fry being in my in thou shalt always kill |
| 0:22.8 | and then I spend an hour questioning Stephen Frye it was an absolute joy I've held off on |
| 0:28.1 | re-releasing this because there was points in recent years where Stephen appeared to speak out against |
| 0:35.3 | the trans community or at least in some way sympathetically between J.K. Rowling, |
| 0:40.6 | who I'm personally, I'm not a fan of. |
| 0:42.8 | But then a little while later, Stephen clarified his views on that |
| 0:46.5 | and showed support and love for the trans community, |
| 0:50.2 | and it made me less sad. |
| 0:53.7 | Because I know I'm not a cancel culture guy, but I do believe in, you know, |
| 0:58.4 | letting certain key, key beliefs lead your way, your, your, your, your, your, |
| 1:04.5 | you'll start some things, your, your views on, on pop culture, you know, and people within. |
| 1:10.1 | So I was a bit sad when that appeared to be the case. |
| 1:13.4 | I don't know I'm bringing all this up here. |
| 1:14.9 | I don't want to start any beef with anyone. |
| 1:17.0 | I'm a peaceful guy, okay? |
| 1:18.4 | But I love my trans community. |
| 1:20.6 | And I love Stephen Fry. |
| 1:22.5 | So I'm delighted to get back into our conversation here, |
| 1:25.9 | where, in fact, we do talk about how communities |
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