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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Aisling Bea - Crystal therapy, confidence and making comedy out of loneliness

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2018

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to comedian and actor Aisling Bea about cutting rugs, Nordic dyslexia, crystal therapy, trying to make comedy out of loneliness, the crown prince of Denmark, ghosts, the placebo effect, confidence VS self esteem, the body and stress, competitive funny people, talking about tragedy and why it's harder to be nice to those who matter the most.

Trigger warning – depression, suicide


Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Bailey Lenart

Produced by Sarah Garvey

A huge thanks to Phoenix Artist Club in London for letting me record my podcast and do my shows with them. Special thanks to Peter Dunbar.

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0:00.0

I think all the people I've been left with who I surround myself with in my friendship groups, wherever

0:05.1

we are and are, who the hell are we getting to be better people and trying to better ourselves?

0:10.4

All of the people are definitely working on themselves.

0:13.0

What I find very hard is to be around people who are like,

0:15.0

this is who I am, I am who I am, and I'm not going to change myself or anybody.

0:19.0

And you're like, would you have to?

0:20.0

Sometimes, you're a cunt.

0:22.0

And that's really hurtful to people. Sometimes you're a cunt.

0:25.0

And that's really hurtful to people. It gets better because it has to get better.

0:31.0

We're all made of you. better. I am your host and first I must apologize for both the audio quality and the low volume with which I speak.

0:50.0

I am in Denmark in my childhood bedroom. My mother's asleep next door and I forgot my recording equipment so I'm recording this on my phone.

1:00.0

It's all very unprofessional. At the same time, I've been in Denmark for almost a week now, so I've been speaking Danish and thinking in Danish, so my English right now is not ideal.

1:12.0

So, sorry for all of that. I will quickly, quickly let you get to the episode, which is the wonderful Ashland B. recorded live at the Edinburgh Fringe. thank you to people who came.

1:22.6

It was quite an eventful recording

1:26.8

because the microphones broke in the beginning,

1:30.6

or one of the microphones broke.

1:32.6

So it was asking the only one who had a microphone.

1:37.5

So I kind of had to shout my questions,

1:39.4

making it a bit less intimate than it usually would have been because it's very hard to answer

1:44.8

or to ask questions about trauma when you have to scream into someone's face.

1:48.8

So it's an interesting one. I enjoyed it.

1:52.1

Ashley's artist. It's an interesting one. I enjoyed it. Aisling is just one of the most interesting people.

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