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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Comedian Tom Ballard - Refugees, homophobia, hope and first kisses

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2017

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

The lost episode that was only just found. Recorded in August 2016, I speak to Australian comedian Tom Ballard about refugees, changing lives, activism, about hope, first kisses, homophobia, bi-erasure, transphobia, TERFS, the dream of no borders, and religion. Help the refugees: https://refugeelegal.org.au/ http://www.helprefugees.org.uk/ https://flygtning.dk/

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0:00.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:07.0

We're all made of human.

0:12.0

Hello and welcome to the Made of Human Podcast. The podcast I made because I wanted to

0:18.2

find out how to do life but then I realized very quickly that no one knows how to do life and it then became a part-

0:25.0

became a podcast where I speak to people to feel less alone

0:29.0

with the fact that I don't know how to function and how to be an adult and a real life human being.

0:37.0

Thank you for listening.

0:38.0

This episode is a, it's almost a special one, a special episode, because it's with Tom Ballard and I recorded

0:48.7

him as the third ever episode back in August 2016 and I mean I I should probably lie to make this

0:58.8

sound cooler but what happened was I it was a new recorder and it saved the recording in a folder that I didn't

1:09.0

I couldn't find and then I just thought I'd lost the recording so I just never put it out there and now I found it and I listened to it and I was like this is really really relevant.

1:20.0

Everything we talk about is so relevant because we touch upon the subject of the refugee crisis because Tom is very involved with that so

1:31.0

it all fits together quite almost magically perfect because by the time you listen to this, this will be announced.

1:40.0

When I'm recording this, it won't be.

1:42.0

So I feel like I'm telling someone a secret.

1:44.4

I'm organizing a benefit in London at the Union Chapel on February 27th for the organization that's called

1:51.4

Help refugees. It's a really nice, amazing organization and I wanted to do it last year and I never got

1:58.0

around to it which I feel very guilty about but then I got Daniel Kitson on board so it's you know but the time you

2:06.2

listed as it might be sold out I'm let's hope so so so Kitson is comparing I'm on the

2:11.6

bill because why wouldn't I be right? Why wouldn't

2:15.0

that be stupid of me not to book myself? And then I have Stuart Lee is on,

2:21.8

Bridget Christie, Nishkuma, Tom Allen and then Bishop who you know from this

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