Comedian Geraldine Hickey - Psychiatric units, coming out and banana sandwiches
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2018
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Sofie and Melbourne-based comedian Geraldine Hickey talk about being content, pita bread and banana sandwiches, running your own race, women playing Aussie Rules, Nauru and refugees, spending a week in a psychiatric unit, how coming out stepped up her comedy and identifying triggers in mental health.
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| 0:00.0 | Like every person does this in their careers they you know look at other people and go |
| 0:06.2 | What if they get that? You know, but |
| 0:11.9 | I don't know yet I just you know someone early on was like you've got to run your |
| 0:19.2 | own rice it gets better because it has to get better. |
| 0:25.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:30.0 | You are listening to the Made of Human Podcast. I am Sophie Hagen. I am your host. I was about to say your host and your friend, but I don't know why I think I'm on some kind of weird inspirational speaking |
| 0:46.4 | thing I'm currently traveling all over well the world basically, so I'm disoriented, if that's even a word. |
| 0:57.0 | My God, I am doing so much podcasting and I'm enjoying it so so much. |
| 1:01.0 | I'm talking to just the best people. I'm from Denmark by the way that's the |
| 1:05.6 | accent explained and also a stand-up comedian. |
| 1:09.6 | Commedying! Oh my God! Don't edit this out, so not even this either. Let's try and keep this as real as we can. |
| 1:19.0 | I'm a stand-up comedian and on this episode I speak to Geraldine Hickey who is an Australian |
| 1:25.0 | comedian and I just absolutely love her to bit and I'm sure you'll love her as |
| 1:30.8 | well before I let you listen to our wonderful conversation, I am doing |
| 1:36.9 | live episodes of The Made of Human Podcast at the Soho Theater in July. It's in London. There will be loads more live episodes happening all over |
| 1:48.0 | the UK. In August I will be at the Edinburghinge Festival and I'm doing a slot called Sophie |
| 1:56.3 | Hagen does something. It's a teeny tiny I think a 40-seater room. It's a free |
| 2:02.1 | French show so you can't get tickets. It's about we'll figure, I'll figure out a system I think hopefully. |
| 2:07.0 | And every day I'll just do a thing for an hour and it could be a live podcast episode. It could be a work in progress show for next year or it could be a talk show or a |
| 2:17.0 | quiz or a dance, who knows. |
| 2:20.3 | If you go to SovietHagen.com you'll see a schedule, you can go and see it on the day or a few days before what I'm going to do. |
| 2:26.0 | It's just going to be a little fun thing. |
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