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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Sophie Duker - Polyamory, shame and starting fires

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Comedy, Society & Culture

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Sofie and London-based comedian and writer Sophie Duker talk about tasting drinks from shoes, living with witches, starting fires, finding out your Dad is having an affair, polyamory, doomed relationships, the old stalwarts of shame and guilt and being ‘abducted’ and sent to Ghana.


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0:00.0

My grandma was Methodist, very religious. I remember, we went to church every Sunday, and when I came to, came back from Ghana to the UK and I used to go to church, I was like,

0:09.7

why are all these people here? If they're so sad to be here like no one seemed to want to be

0:15.4

at church and I was like you're adults you don't have to come.

0:20.1

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'm your host. I am from Denmark. I live in the UK and I'm talking at you from Australia.

0:41.0

That is why my accent is like this and my voice is tired. Not tired. I'm jet laggy.

0:48.0

It's jet lag is such a weird thing because you logically with your brain knows you know that you're in

0:55.1

like it's a certain time a day but your whole body is like no no it's not no you

1:01.7

should be sleeping even though you just slept for eight hours, you should definitely be sleeping because it should be dark outside.

1:07.0

So it's a strange, it's strange, is what I'm trying to say. I am so in love with this episode with Sophie Dooker. I met Sophie a few,

1:16.7

it must be a few years ago now and the second I met her was like, oh she's going to do the podcast and it took us a while to get it sorted but now we did and

1:23.7

oh you're gonna absolutely love her I know I say that about all the all the people I talk to

1:31.6

I know it's cheating I know you even make fun of. I know it's cheating. I know you even make fun of it. I know it's a thing.

1:35.2

That oh God this person is incredible. She says that about maybe I only get incredible people on the

1:40.0

podcast. Did you ever think about that? I'm not sure you did. So I hope you'll enjoy

1:44.1

Sophie Duka. Before I let you listen to her, I am doing live episodes of The

1:50.5

Made of Human Podcast. I will be at the Soho Theatre in London in July at the Mcunlet

1:55.2

Festival in May and at the Brighton French Festival in Brighton also in May. So if you're

2:01.2

around for any of those dates, if they have not happened yet by the time you listen to this, go get some tickets and show up.

2:07.0

It's always super fun during these live episodes.

2:10.0

I'm not going to announce the guests beforehand because you never know who ends up canceling last minute and also I want you to come because you love the podcast and like me and not because you like the person.

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