Comedian Zainab Johnson - Islam, Malcolm X and being pretty
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 64 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to comedian, actor and writer Zainab Johnson about appreciating the ‘yes’es, fate, being ‘pretty’ on stage, the importance or lack thereof of credits, confidence, being one of 13 children, investigating faith as a practising Muslim, the need to belong, the beauty and power of belief, The Book of Eli and Malcolm X.
Trigger warnings: Islamophobia
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes I put an address into my GPS just to make sure it's where I believe it is. |
| 0:06.0 | And then when that's confirmed, it gives me directions and I'm like, I know a much quicker way to get there. |
| 0:13.4 | Why would I take this way the GPS is sending me? |
| 0:16.2 | Like, you know? |
| 0:17.4 | And so I feel like the things we want in life |
| 0:20.2 | are that way too. |
| 0:27.0 | It gets better because it has to get better. We're all made of human. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to the Made of Human podcast. I am Sophie Hagen. This is a podcast in which I speak to people about life stuff. A very original podcast format. Thank you very much. I am chatting to sign up Johnson in |
| 0:46.7 | this episode. A woman I was very amazed by when I met her. I did this in |
| 0:52.1 | Melbourne a month or so ago. She's American and we were both in |
| 0:58.1 | Melbourne. So that's the story of how we met. I'm really happy to put this out. It, it, I, listen, I love talking to |
| 1:09.3 | religious people. I'm good, this can, and I think if you've listened to this podcast before you know that that's true and you can I'm sure you can tell by the way I speak to people who are religious that |
| 1:20.1 | They're my favorite people and yeah, I don't know that might be controversial but |
| 1:26.1 | guess what I'm not riggove a's I'm not gonna go on some kind of rampage |
| 1:30.6 | against religion because I think there are problems that have not to do with religion |
| 1:37.8 | that makes people be assholes, something like, I think you should only be allowed to truly criticize the concept of religion if you are willing to first truly criticize the problem of toxic masculinity and sexism and racism. |
| 1:56.4 | Once you can tell me all the problems with that, then you're allowed to say and then maybe religion has a |
| 2:04.2 | thing to do with something. But before you can do that, now I'm not |
| 2:07.1 | listening mate, not listening. So I hope you'll enjoy my chat with sign up I absolutely adored her. Before I let you listen I just want to quickly say I'm doing live episodes of this |
| 2:18.8 | podcast at the Soho Theater in London in July I am talking to Megan Crab, Body Party Panda, Susan Kalman on the Tuesday the 3rd of July. |
| 2:30.0 | Oh, shit. Oh sorry, this is so rude, but my best friend just sent me a picture of his baby, he just had a baby. |
| 2:39.0 | Oh, sorry, well, I love to you're kind of part of my, um, part of my life in that way. |
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