Comedian Desiree Burch - Mortality, capitalism and finding the time to fuck

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

Depth, Conversation, Comedy Interviews, Interview, Activism, Female, Comedy, Fat, Mental Health, Chat, Health & Fitness, Self-help, Feminism, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2019

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to Desiree Burch about turning 40, mortality, finding the time to fuck, emotional connection, fragility, fat friends, her comedy central show Fat Chat, capitalism, patriachy, losing her virginity, boundaries and climbing Machu Picchu.

Trigger warning – Setting boundaries, aging, illness, death, sex, bodies, weight loss, exercise, eating disorders, nicotene, smoking, fatphobia, abuse, cancer, autoimmune disease, heart disease, diabetes, racism, beauty standards, shame, trauma, abandonment

Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering

Guests booked by Kitty Edgar

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0:00.0	Also, I gotta be honest, I need to fuck.
0:02.2	Like, I just, it's like I'm too fucking busy.
0:04.7	All I'm doing is working all the time.
0:06.3	And everyone's super happy with me except for my vagina.
0:09.0	Everyone's like, oh great, keep up the good work.
0:11.0	And I'm like, a bitch is lonely.
0:13.0	Hormones are real and they control practically everything.
0:16.0	You are listening to made of human also known as the mow
0:20.4	part a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen who is a Danish comedian
0:26.5	Mow!
0:27.5	Trying to find out how to do life
0:32.3	Mow part but it turns out nobody knows Mopah.
0:37.0	If you can hear something in the background it is probably my dehumidifier and or my laundry machine
0:50.6	laundry machine is it called a washing machine.
0:55.0	Oh boy. I have been, so I went straight from Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Festival to Sweden, to Denmark, and then from Denmark I went back to London where I then
1:06.3	did a week at the Soho Theatre and literally five minutes after I walked off stage on the very last night, I fell ill and I woke up on the
1:16.7	Sunday just, I've never had a cold blanket. It was like a super cold, like an XXL cold. it was like a super cold like an x x x x xl cold it was quite
1:25.2	incredible quite impressive and I have been sick up until now and now I'm
1:30.6	recording this intro.
1:33.0	So my brain is a bit, it's mushy, isn't it?
1:36.0	And I did this recording with Deseret, Deseret Birch yesterday,
1:41.0	and I'm very excited for you to listen to it. I think it's a very interesting chat.
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