EP.109 - DAWN O'PORTER
THE ADAM BUXTON PODCAST
Adam Buxton
4.8 • 21.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2019
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
Adam talks with British television presenter turned author Dawn O'Porter about selfies, how she coped with the death of her mother when she was just 7, what she plans to do with some of her other loved ones when they die, her early days in TV, social media scrapes and writing routines.
Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and Matt Lamont for conversation editing.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement for BetterHelp Therapy Online. |
| 0:03.3 | Thought I'd bring my guitar along for the walk today was yes I noticed. Can I play you a song I just wrote? |
| 0:10.9 | Yeah great. |
| 0:12.9 | Sometimes I feel in the worst person in the world selfish and boring and everybody knows it. |
| 0:20.9 | I'm sick and tired of living in my head it's like a stinky ear from sewer and I really want to dance it. |
| 0:28.9 | Yeah I liked party pom pom. Why don't you do another one like that? |
| 0:32.9 | I'm bearing my soul. |
| 0:34.9 | Well that's very vulnerable of you but if that's really the way you feel about yourself. |
| 0:39.9 | Can I suggest you talk to someone? Are you being serious? Yeah I am. This is an advert for BetterHelp Therapy Online. |
| 0:46.9 | Yes I know with over a thousand therapists in the UK already better help can provide access to professionals with a wide variety of expertise in mental health. |
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| 1:01.9 | And not even writing a brilliant song and playing it to your dog friend helps. |
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| 1:17.9 | Alright thanks Rosie. Let's get back on the road. Alright Mr Hendrix. |
| 1:36.9 | I took my microphone and found some human folk. Then I recorded all the noises while we spoke. |
| 1:45.9 | My name is Adam Buster and I'm a man. I want you to enjoy this. That's the plan. |
| 1:57.9 | Hey how you doing podcats Adam Buster here. |
| 2:03.9 | I am walking down my favorite farm track. It's not even four in the afternoon this Saturday in mid-November 2019. |
| 2:15.9 | And already it is well gloomy and I guess in an hour or so it will be dark. Wow look there's a big puff ball mushroom there. |
| 2:27.9 | Ooh it's detached. A friend of mine the other day who was visiting went for a walk and came back with one of these big old puff ball mushrooms. |
| 2:39.9 | A few weeks back this was. This one that I'm looking at now is all manky. It looks like a kind of zombie skull. |
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