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Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Writer Danny Wallace - Rudeness, cults and weird Belgian chat shows (Live)

Sofieland with Sofie Hagen

Sofie Hagen

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.91.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2018

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Sofie talks to writer and presenter Danny Wallace about how the Argos stockroom really works, how to avoid confrontation when buying hot dogs, why our brains can't come up with a witty comeback in the moment, a rudeness vaccine, the 'stretch and stroll', trying to write for Hallmark, getting on Richard Whiteley's bad side, a moment in time with Ronnie Barker, starting countries and cults, why people keep stealing his image, Jesusween and weird Belgian chat shows.

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0:00.0

Everyone has to have an opinion on everything all the time and then broadcast that opinion in as blunt away as possible.

0:06.0

And it was, it all led me to go mad one day when I tried to buy a hot dog.

0:12.0

It gets better because it has to get better.

0:18.0

We're all made of human.

0:22.0

Hello, you are listening to the Made of Human

0:26.5

podcast I am Sophie Hagen I am your host I am a Danish stand-up comedian with a podcast.

0:34.0

So this is my accent and this is the Danny Wallace episode.

0:39.0

Welcome, thank you for tuning in.

0:41.0

If you don't know, if this is the first time you've tuned in. If you don't know if you've, this is the first time you've tuned in. I made

0:46.5

this podcast because I wanted to figure out how to be better at doing life and turned out that

0:52.3

no one has any idea. So now it's more just me having a

0:56.0

chat with people about how they cope. How do we all cope with this thing called life? This is the Danny Wallace episode. It's so so real to even say that.

1:08.0

To even say that this is the Danny Wallace episode. I mean, I've read his books when I was a teenager you know like it

1:18.2

so I read I read yes man I must have read it at least 15 times because I own seven copies because I've

1:28.9

been on my way on holiday and then realized no I need to read it right now or I've just seen it in the

1:34.8

shop and thought I'll just buy it even though I had one at home like I have this I have

1:40.5

this book everywhere it's everywhere and I've read it so many times and now he's on my

1:45.6

podcast which is so real but lovely and he was great so I'll let you listen to that in just a bit, but first I just quickly want to say that my new show is out.

1:57.0

You can download or stream my new stand-up comedy show. It's a video.

2:02.0

You can download it on Sophie Hagen dot com

2:04.8

slash shop which is s-o-f-I-e-a-g-e-g-e-n-n-com forward slash shop you can also it's linked

2:11.8

on my Twitter as the pinned post, so you can find it there if you want.

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