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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Sameena Zehra - Pacifism, imaginary friends and learning from family

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2019

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary


Sofie talks to Sameena Zehra about non violence, imaginary worlds, imaginary friends, justice, tribalism, having a privileged upbringing, The Hunger Games, talking herself out of jobs, acting, dark fantasies, letting people in, honesty and stepping on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s foot.


Trigger warning – divorce, trauma, violence, war, refugees, parental/family violence, death, funerals, torture, emotional abuse



Artwork by Linda Brinkhaus

Jingle by Harriet Braine

Produced by Dave Pickering


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0:00.0

We're all some kind of ass biscuit. We're just trying to be more biscuit, but generally we end up being more ass. But we don't want to be full biscuit. We want to be somewhere in the middle there, but slightly more biscuit than us.

0:12.0

You are listening to Made of Human

0:14.8

also known as the Mopard, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen,

0:20.0

who is a Danish comedian. to find out how to do life

0:28.0

but it turns out. Nobody knows.

0:37.0

Hello.

0:41.0

Hello. It's me happy February. It's about time I think I think January was probably the

0:50.5

longest month I've ever experienced. It was so long and so dark and wet and cold and

0:59.3

I mean for anyone in Australia listening to this you'll be like oh can we please have January back

1:03.7

because it was so warm and nice and I'm like well you're probably going to be I I

1:08.4

know I'm glorifying the Australian summer because it's so cold here that I'm like I would rather live in an oven forever

1:16.5

as long as it was light and bright and not

1:21.3

British winter also it coincided with not British Winter.

1:22.5

Also, it coincided with, like I need to get a new therapist and that is the worst, it's so difficult.

1:30.5

Just, it's like going on like a like a speed, speed dating event, speed dating

1:37.0

event where you're just putting all your trauma and your vulnerability and

1:41.8

everything out on the table and you're like can I ever be okay and then they can be like oh no sorry

1:48.8

just go on to the next one. So, what a month, and I mean this when I say that this helps.

1:59.0

You people supporting me and this thing helps.

2:02.0

Try not gush too much over you. people supporting me and this thing helps.

2:03.0

I'll try not gush too much over you because I tend to do that quite a lot.

2:07.0

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