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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Poet Scroobius Pip - Having a stutter, death and empathy

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 August 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to musician, spoken word poet and actor Scroobius Pip about casting a British Hamilton, embracing the fact that art is not a documentary, having a stutter, the taboo of discussing the crossover between good and bad, almost drowning as a kid and how it may have affected his outlook on death, feeling empathy for bullies and the importance of Hokusai: Old Man Crazy to Paint. TRIGGER WARNINGS: mentions of bullying and a discussion of suicide and the language which surrounds it.

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0:00.0

I think life's far scarier than death.

0:03.0

Like again, not being religious, death doesn't bother me too much because it's like, well that's that, isn't it?

0:09.0

It's kind of done, that's not.

0:11.0

Yeah, it's done.

0:12.0

Okay, I don't have to worry about that. That's but but life is at

0:16.5

times terrifying. So yeah, I think there's that understanding that that's I'm not some special a unique

0:27.5

creature that happens to find life tough sometimes I think most people have that

0:32.0

and particularly in school and years like that.

0:34.8

It's if you're kidding yourself that you're the only one struggling then you're probably not.

0:41.6

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:48.0

We're all made of human.

0:52.0

Hello, my name is Sophie Hagen and you're listening to the Made of Human

0:56.2

podcast in short mopat it's a podcast in which I speak to nice people about life

1:01.6

trying to find out how to do it, you know, how to be a proper human being.

1:07.3

And if they don't know how to do that, we'll just sit and have a chat and I don't know feel feel less alone together I guess this week I'm speaking to

1:17.3

scrupulous Pipp and holy what a what a shit what a man wow I'm still kind of blown away. So I'll let you listen to a chat in just a tiny bit.

1:28.9

First I am going to tell you that I'm going on tour. Going on to with my brand new show Dead Baby Frog which is a stand-up show about emotional abuse.

1:38.0

Ha ha ha ha.

1:40.0

And the show will be, we'll have a completely gender neutral toilets and all the venues.

1:45.0

All the venues will have disabled access and they will be anxiety safe,

1:51.0

meaning that you can message me.

1:53.0

There's an email address, I think it's, oh yeah, I know it is, it's T-O-U-U-R at Sophiehagen.

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