340 - Pope Lonergan

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Stuart Goldsmith

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🗓️ 21 May 2020

⏱️ 80 minutes

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An intriguing and invigorating "NonComPod" this week with comedian, care home assistant and indeed care home comedian Pope Lonergan. Impressively erudite, Pope has been addicted to drugs as well as to reading about the Hawaiian judicial system; we discuss his lifelong search for transcendence, whether drug-fuelled revelations of great artists count, and how to inhabit the present.

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0:00.0	Are there any words more guaranteed to strike terror into people's hearts than climate comedy?
0:04.6	Well, I thought so, and then I took my show Spoilers to the Edinburgh Festival and everyone bloody loved it,
0:09.7	including Brian Eno, if you can believe that. You can see it at the Soho Theatre from the 29th of November for four nights get your tickets at Stuart Goldsmith.com. Hello. Hello and welcome to the show I'm Stuart Goldsmith this is a non-com
0:38.3	pod but it is nonetheless a conversation with a comedian will be it newer one, Pope Lonergan is my interviewee for today.
0:46.4	He's a fascinating character.
0:48.7	I don't want to tell you too much about him because I sort of discovered him throughout the course of this interview. He came to my attention a little while ago.
0:56.2	He's certainly been putting himself about on social media and offering interesting things.
1:00.6	He runs a show called The Addiction Clinic. He is an
1:04.3	addict, a former addict. There is going to be some pretty up front chat. This is I'm
1:09.8	going to disclaim this with a general content warning for talk about addiction. We will cover
1:15.1	some thoughts on suicidal ideation, but I also want to stress that unless those
1:21.3	things are genuinely triggering for you, you should listen to it anyway
1:25.8	because it isn't a dark bleak awful kind of a chat, nor is it a light breezy look at the
1:31.5	funny side of addiction, but Pope is much more than that he is a really erudite character and there are some there is some
1:40.1	couple of shoutouts a couple of references to some astonishingly high-brow authors that at the time you'll probably hear me go,
1:46.2	uh-huh, uh-huh, as if I know what the fuck he's talking about.
1:49.2	But he's very, very literate, very well-read. It contrasts nicely with his voice, which does not necessarily
1:56.0	sound very literate depending on your own privilege and your perception, your expectations
2:02.2	of other people's accents.
2:03.7	But he is very honest, and he's very funny, and I think that you are going to enjoy this.
2:09.7	A very quick thanks to Tom Dewar, who upped his subscription very kindly if you're a member of
2:14.8	the insiders club there's actually no extra content with this episode it was just a
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