Writer Richard Osman - The illusion of being posh, fathers and food
Sofieland with Sofie Hagen
Sofie Hagen
4.9 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 31 October 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Sofie talks to producer, writer and co-host of Pointless, Richard Osman about crossing “the talent moat”, writing successes and failures, orbiting the earth, the illusion of being posh, fathers, flaws, barricade-shouters, building walls, Twitter and abuse, Identity politics and relationships with food.
TRIGGER WARNINGS: Eating disorders, self-harm.
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| 0:00.0 | Everyone's a good person, you know, we all try and we all fail, you know, |
| 0:05.0 | none of us are as good as we could be and so we all think we're bad is the truth, |
| 0:09.0 | unless we don't care. You know, so people who don't care don't think they're bad, |
| 0:12.0 | and people who do care do you think they're bad, and people who do care do think they're bad, and that's the paradox. |
| 0:16.0 | It gets better because it has to get better, |
| 0:21.0 | because it has to get better. |
| 0:22.0 | We're all made of human. |
| 0:27.0 | Hello, my name is Sophie Hagen. |
| 0:29.0 | I'm a stand-up comedian and this is my podcast made of human or in short |
| 0:33.0 | mopad it's a podcast in which I speak to nice people about life how to do it how to |
| 0:38.0 | adult how to make it all make sense and if the people I talk to don't know how to do it which spoiler |
| 0:44.1 | alert no one knows how to do it it just ends up being a chat in which we end up |
| 0:48.5 | feeling I guess less alone and that sounds dooshy but that's basically what it is and this week I am speaking to |
| 0:55.7 | Richard Asman and I let you listen to our chat in just a bit I need to say something about this |
| 1:00.3 | particular interview or chat or whatever you want to I hate calling it |
| 1:04.2 | interview because it feels more like a chat which is basically me saying it's about me |
| 1:08.6 | as well it's not just me talking to someone about them I think at the end of the end of the interview, like the last topic I discussed with Richard, |
| 1:19.0 | I'm kind of taken back a bit and he says some things about food and about weight. |
| 1:30.0 | I feel like if I've been I feel like I'm maybe I should have said more maybe I should have |
| 1:37.0 | been more clear in the things that I say back to him |
| 1:56.0 | I don't really know how to phrase this, but when you listen to the end, I don't know, I felt weird. I felt a bit weird afterwards, as if I hadn't said everything that I needed to say, but I'm still not sure I know exactly how to |
| 2:01.1 | how to phrase it, even if he was sitting in front of me again now. I'm not sure what I would say. |
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