Comedian Thanyia Moore - Zoom, forgiving yourself and comedy in the wake of George Floyd

Who Hurt You?

Sofie Hagen

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🗓️ 10 July 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Sofie talks to Thanyia Moore about fitness stuff, therapy, finding groups difficult, navigating the comedy scene as a black woman in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, finding the words, being funny over Zoom, forgiving yourself, and the three questions white people should ask their parents.

Trigger warning – coronavirus, death, bereavement, breakups, therapy, child abuse, sexuality, racism, mental health issues, murder, police/white violence, the N word, trauma, drug use, overdose, bullying

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0:00.0	I mean people are happy and willing to sing the N word but stutter to say black.
0:06.0	What?
0:07.0	Thanks!
0:08.0	What do you do when you go black pepper?
0:10.0	What do you say?
0:11.0	Do you know what I mean?
0:12.0	The system set it up so that black is a bad word, it's a bad thing, it's negative, it's naughty.
0:19.0	You are listening to, made of human, also known as the Mole Pod, a podcast hosted by Sophie Hagen, who is a Danish
0:28.8	comedian.
0:29.8	Mole Pahr, trying to find out how to do life
0:35.0	but it turns out nobody knows
0:40.0	nobody knows mopah Nobody knows.
0:49.4	Hello everyone. I hope that you are feeling as
1:07.9	Relaxed as I am. I feel like it has been, it's, it's been a week. I feel like I could say that at any point, at any point in the year of 2020 and it would still be true that wow I don't even know what every morning when I wake you know what now anything can be and it doesn't matter what the news tell me I'm not surprised
1:14.7	anymore it could announce that Godzilla was on its way to crush everything and I'd be
1:19.6	like yeah of course yeah I'm not even. I wouldn't blink. I wouldn't blink. If there was suddenly an
1:28.1	elephant walking through my garden, I'd be like, yeah, yeah, yeah, there's elephants now, of course there is. I'm not even, nothing can surprise.
1:36.1	I mean, I don't want to jinx it, but I don't know if you know this, but there has been some technical issues on my side that's why this is coming out a bit late and my computer basically died which is excellent timing.
1:51.0	Was it new? I mean, it wasn't old and I haven't been mean to it, but I think I've just been
1:58.0	streaming and you know doing these recordings and I just couldn't handle it anymore but now I think it's fixed knock on wood or whatever you say.
2:07.0	I think it's fixed now.
2:09.0	So I'm feeling relaxed because at least I can podcast again.
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