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Adulting

#11 We are all human with Kojo Apeagyei

Adulting

Oenone

Education, Society & Culture

4.82.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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This week I speak to spoken word poet, write & social activist who works for Shelter Charity, about homelessness, activism, privilege and more.

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0:00.0

Hi guys, welcome to Adulting. This is a podcast where we try to work out all the things

0:18.4

we're supposed to know when we're supposedly grown up, but I don't really feel that

0:22.0

grown up yet, even though I'm 24. And today I'm joined by Kho Jo.

0:26.8

Hey, good thank you are you? I'm low and well still a bit hungover.

0:32.2

Yeah, I know we're both now so slight hangovers, but it's fine we'll get to it.

0:36.7

Probably adulting experience. Yeah, exactly so true. How cool are we that it's like 11-11

0:42.9

and we're up out and hungover? That is hashtag adulting for sure. So I got Kho Jo to send me

0:48.9

a little bio just so that I and it's amazing. I'm actually just going to read it all out

0:53.2

so it's really cool. So Kho Jo, APAJ, is that right? The human. It's an experimental writer, poet

1:00.1

and social activist working for the housing and homelessness charte shelter as a campaigner.

1:04.8

Kho Jo mobilises and organises the public to help tackle the housing crisis faced by millions

1:09.4

across the country in various forms. Having experienced so for surfing for months and

1:13.2

and and Kho Jo's work and housing is rooted in a deeply personal and emotional place.

1:17.2

Outside of his work at shelter he produces his own podcast called OutLies X, need to listen to that,

1:22.2

which discusses the weird and wonderful topics of fringe culture,

1:24.8

a thriving monthly poetry night in Covent Gardens London called Pengting poetry.

1:29.8

He can often be found in corners on work coding, reading or writing other awkward

1:33.5

idiosyncrasy, what a great word of life. That is a really good word yeah. And what

1:38.9

fondamenting means for a human and there's little ball of dirt and water that we call home.

1:43.0

I love that last breath. That's so cute. Look, one of that water. I'm actually going to,

1:47.8

I wrote that as you asked me for a buy I was like, shit, need a buy. And then wrote it like

1:51.9

at work and I think I'm going to start using that water. Yeah, I think you shared. You just had

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