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Who Hurt You?

Comedian Mark Watson - depression, suicide and the shit stupid year of 2020 (Part One)

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

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

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 January 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

In part 1 of their annual New Year’s chat Sofie talks to Mark Watson about parenting in 2020, writing, mental health, experiences of the pandemic, turning 40, masculinity, Menkind, and his new novel ‘Contacts’.

Content warning – coronavirus, anxiety, climate change, capitalism, state violence, culture war, Trump, dictatorships, death, disease, conspiracy theorists, suicide, suicidal ideation, depression, loneliness

Artwork by Justine McNichol
Jingle by Harriet Braine
Produced by Dave Pickering

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0:00.0

There were people and I didn't know you odd as that seems and there are a handful of really key figures in my life who I didn't know which I often say to people that are younger than me that are struggling

0:08.8

My life changed quite a bit between 35 and 40 So if you're 24 and you think everything's

0:14.6

fucked, this sounds patronizing, but there's so much to come. There's so much to come.

0:18.4

You know, you never stop meeting people who change you and change your life. But even

0:21.5

then I was never properly as alone as the

0:24.0

character feels in the novel because I did have a couple of extremely loyal and

0:27.6

long-standing friends. You are listening to Made of Human also known as the mole part a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen who is a Danish

0:38.6

comedian all trying to find out how to do life

0:45.0

But it turns out

0:49.0

nobody knows Mop.

0:50.0

Nobody knows Mop. It's 2021.

0:56.8

2021. It's the first episode of the New Year, so it's time for what has become a treasure tradition. We reflect over the past year and the coming

1:05.8

year with comedian Mark Watson. Mark is not just a comedian of course, he's a friend of the

1:11.1

podcast but also a close friend of mine.

1:14.0

Last year we recorded the New Year's episode sitting in his guest bedroom on New Year's Eve dressed in a

1:20.5

goat and an elephant costume because we were spending the evening with his children and partner of course but the dressing up thing was probably mostly for the kids. This year things are slightly different. As far as I can understand, COVID in the UK has currently never been worse. We are in Tier 4 lockdown in London.

1:45.1

Mark is my bubble, meaning that for the past 10 months I've only been in the same room

1:51.0

with him, his girlfriend, who's fortunately also my friend,

1:54.7

Leanne, and his children. So, strangely, this episode of Mopad is the first face-to-face episode I've recorded since before March last year.

2:07.0

Which might also be why the recording equipment failed me.

2:11.0

So if you hear a slight change in the sound it's because we've had to temporarily

2:16.1

switch to a backup recording for a bit.

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