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Hello dear citizens of Sophie Land.
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Uh I just thought that I would give you a little update because if you are a I don't even know if you can call yourself a regular listen listener of this podcast because it has been a regular S fuck, to be honest with you.
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Uh I started this podcast in January of this year, so what, five, six months ago?
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Five months ago?
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And I don't know if there's been a single regular thing about it, but uh I do want to at the very least keep you updated on what's happening because I know it's been gone for a little bit.
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And also it's been changing formats and blah blah blah.
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So here's where we're at now.
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So obviously the reason it's changing is because it is completely self-produced, and um that means I'm doing all of the stuff.
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There is no big company making any of the decisions, uh ploughing, that's not the right word, plowing money into it.
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Let's just use that.
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Uh it is after all my second language, and I'm speaking to you from Denmark, how impressive.
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Uh it just means that everything's up to me, and I'm doing all of it myself.
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And listen, when I started podcasting in 2014, 13?
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I think 13.
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So many years ago.
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Oh, I had my little handheld recorder, and it was all audio, and I just would upload it to SoundCloud, and then that was all I needed to do.
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I don't even know if there was social media where I could tell Twitter, maybe we had Twitter, where I could tell people about the podcast, and it was just the podcast, and then like the audio, and then Twitter, and that was that was the whole thing.
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And now, oh my god.
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First of all, the episodes are now on YouTube.
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I have a camera, I'm filming the episodes, which makes it, I'm not exaggerating, a thousand times harder and a thousand times more complicated.
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Um, but it is also just what we have to do now, right?
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That is just a thing, and I am trying to love it.
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And I a part of me does love it.
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I do I love watching podcasts now on video.
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I am really into it.
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I well, I was about to tell you which podcast I I'm not gonna advertise other people's podcasts on this.
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Why why would I do that?
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That feels not not smart, anyways.
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It's Caleb Heron's podcast uh and a few Danish ones.
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Um and I love it.
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I love I'm I I play The Sims and then I watch the podcasts on my phone and I really enjoy that.
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So I like being able to provide that for you.
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So this podcast is now on YouTube.
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So it's from Sophie Hagen, Sophie Land.
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I guess it's there.
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I guess it should be there.
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Question mark, I'm assuming you can find it.
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Um I think the first one that is on YouTube was the Crystal Evans one, Kim Blythe is on there, uh, Aubrey Gordon episode is on there, and then from now on, they should all be on YouTube.
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Uh, which also means they should be on Spotify, which I am not a hundred percent Spotify is a tricky one, um, but in theory, they should all eventually be on Spotify.
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I will figure that out.
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I mean they are there audio-wise, but I mean like the videos.
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Uh, it also means that uh I be I'll be putting out clips from them, which again takes a million years to do.
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Um, but the video aspect means that the podcast uh took a big unplanned break during the last two months when I was in Australia and New Zealand because Hotel Wi-Fi, first of all, cannot upload 30 gigabytes of video.
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Uh that was a battle, a two-month-long battle.
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And then my little tiny laptop can't edit 30 gigabytes worth of videos, and uh like it was uh what a nightmare.
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What a nightmare.
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Um but, anyways, I'm back on land.
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I'm back on land, I'm back in Europe.
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I have a big old tough computer now that should be able to handle all of it.
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I've got regular internet-ish.
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So I've just edited and uploaded and made everything ready for the Lara Ricotta episode, which will be out tomorrow.
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And uh from then on, what's gonna happen is uh there will be a regular, free, normal podcast episode every other Tuesday, starting with tomorrow.
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So tomorrow you'll get a full free episode of me chatting to Lado Dicotter.
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It's going out uh as audio and as video on YouTube, and that's just gonna be it, hopefully forever, forever, every Tuesday, every other Tuesday, every other Tuesday, you'll get a normal regular episode period, right?
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That should be the concept for now, at least, and forever, let's hope.
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We'll see.
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But at least right now, that's the plan.
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Now, I am then recording bonus episode, bonus content with the guests as well, which will then come out every other Tuesday.
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The Tuesday, where there is not a regular episode, that will come out every other Tuesday.
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Uh, which will then be, if you listen to this on the day, next Tuesday.
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Not tomorrow, but next Tuesday.
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And that will then be Substack and Patreon only.
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So if you're a paid subscriber on Substack and Patreon, you will then get the extra bonus episode.
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And if I have done this correctly, it will then also be added.
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The audio for that will then also be added to your Patreon RSS feed if you want to listen to the audio of it.
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Yeah, we're all taking deep breaths because it's admin, it's not the most exciting thing in the world.
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Some might even say it's boring, but that's where we're at right now.
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If you're a paid subscriber, you get it's now a weekly podcast.
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If you are not, it's a bi-weekly podcast.
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That is how we're gonna do it.
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That's how we're doing it, okay?
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Okay, she asks anxiously and begging, beggingly.
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And then we'll see.
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I mean, I feel I feel like the format keeps changing a little bit.
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Um it's kind of finding its feet.
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I want to make the special bonus content.
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I have a plan for that that I'm not quite sure of yet.
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So far, it's just like I just chat for another 20 minutes with the guests, I ask them a few extra questions, but I feel like I want to make something of that so it becomes its own thing.
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But I haven't quite settled on it yet.
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I have some ideas.
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I have some ideas.
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We're we're figuring it out.
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Um, and also, I think in the beginning I would do these pre-chat things.
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Like every episode was sat with me just chatting at you for like a couple of minutes about like what's happening in my life and what's going on.
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Uh, I've stopped that because, first of all, now that the episode is on, it's a video episode.
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I don't want to film myself doing these because again, it adds like so much extra to it.
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So what I'm gonna do, well, what I have been doing and what I will continue to do is these video diaries that I will sometimes upload again on Substack or Patreon, uh where I just ramble for like 20 minutes to sometimes 40 minutes about what's happening in my life and what's going on.
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And they're not weekly, but they are sometimes monthly, and it's just me kind of letting you in and you know, completely unedited, and those are filmed, by the way.
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I usually go into go to my car, drive somewhere, and just record me chatting to the camera uh and then upload them, and it's just for you guys who um who are paid subscribers.
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So so I'm gonna continue doing that, but then I won't do it in the beginning of each episode.
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So you just get to you just get to go straight to me chatting to the guest after a brief like 60 second advert.
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I don't like the word advert, but it's just me going, hi guys, please buy tickets for my shows, and please subscribe on Patreon.
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I feel like that's fine.
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You don't get those adverts if you're on YouTube, because I feel like YouTube adds their own adverts into it, unless you're a YouTube premium subscriber, which of course means you shouldn't get any adverts at all.
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Guys, what is happening with the world?
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What's going on?
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What is actually going on with the world?
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How things have changed since 2013.
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I am tempted on a daily basis to just go back to my handheld little recorder and SoundCloud and Twit well, not Twitter, who's ever tempted to go on Twitter ever.
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Wow.
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Instead, listen, we're doing this.
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We're doing this, and I'm doing this because it's fun.
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I'm doing it because I love podcasting, because I love having a direct line to you guys, because I think it's fun.
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I'm I love talking to people.
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I've had the best time recording episodes in the Australia.
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I can't wait to record episodes in Edinburgh because that's the other thing, is I live in Denmark now.
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So I can only really record episodes when I'm in the UK or when international acts come to Denmark, or if I'm in Australia, of course, or if I'm in Edinburgh, um, I'm still working on doing international podcasting over Zoom or over, you know, the internet.
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But this internet that we have here where I live is uh irregular.
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So when I was doing the Aubrey Gordon episode, it cut out five times within the hour and I was losing it.
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And uh it doesn't make for the best podcasting if you keep having to take two-minute breaks where I don't know what's happening.
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But I am working on that.
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I'm trying to find staple internet, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way I can do this.
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Because then, oh my god, the world is our oyster, right?
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We can do uh episodes with people from all over the freaking world, and trust me, I have a list.
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I have a list of people I want to interview.
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Now, um we're gonna continue.
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If you're listening to this, it means you're probably one of the the most hardcore listeners, and I cannot express how much I appreciate you.
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I'm in such a weird place in my career right now.
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I like two years ago, I was planning on quitting and never doing stand-up again.
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A year ago, I decided to give it two more years.
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Like I and now I've created this show that feels so special to me.
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I feel like I'm a good comedian for the first time in many years.
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I feel like I've created a very, very special, good show.
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And I'm gonna be honest with you, I had the word important, I was about to say important show, and then I stopped myself because I was like, okay, let's calm down, calm down, but it's definitely important to me.
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And uh it's already gotten one five-star review.
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I you know, not to mention that, but I just did.
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And it's called I Think Some of This Is My Fault.
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And if this could be if this could be my life, if I could do this podcast, and I can do this show, and I can tour this show, and that that's all I need.
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That's all and then I every some year I write a book.
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It would be the best life.
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It I would be happy on a daily basis, and I will never forget you for being with me on this journey.
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It means the whole world to me.
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I'm so grateful.
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I hope, I hope you will come and see this show.
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It would mean the world to me.
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Uh and I'm gonna end this little update with just telling you where I'll be, because so many new dates have been announced.
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I am taking it to the Emerg Fringe this August.
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I am then for the full month, by the way, and it is selling well, which I'm so grateful for.
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I'm then taking it to the Soho Theatre in November in London.
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Oh my god, guys, it's such a big room.
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Well, it's 150 seats, but I'm doing six dates.
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That is a lot of tickets.
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Nine hundred?
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A thousand?
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I can't do the maths.
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It is a lot of tickets to sell.
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Uh so I would love for you to come to that if you're anywhere near London.
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And then next year it's going on tour, baby.
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Um it's in Denmark, Copenhagen, Unser Aarhus, it's in Sweden, Melmour, Juteborg, and Stockholm.
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And I don't do you know what?
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I'm not ashamed to say.
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Well, I am, a little bit.
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Um the Melmour venue, I've never gigged in Melmour in Sweden before.
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It they put me in a 650-seater.
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I've sold two tickets.
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So if you're in Melmour, or anywhere near Melmour, ah hey, please come.
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Please come.
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Uh I'm also doing Berlin and Rotterdam.
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Uh I'm also doing the the UK dates have just been announced.
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Leicester, Sheffield, Selby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Reading, Brighton, Cambridge, London, and Exeter.
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Uh and more dates will be announced.
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If you are like, wait a minute, where's Bristol?
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Calm down.
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Okay?
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Calm down.
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We're getting to Bristol.
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Of course I'm doing Bristol.
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Are you kidding me?
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Uh I will also be doing Leeds.
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Of course I'm doing Leeds.
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We just don't have the venue yet.
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Um Yes, I think that's it.
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Uh please do go and sign up for Patreon or Substack.
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It would mean the entire world to me.
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And I do mean this, I do mean this.
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Like I have been through ups and downs when it comes to my relationship with uh people supporting my work.
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There was a long period of time where I was I don't want to say ungrateful, but I was scared.
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Like it scared me and I felt.
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Um I don't know, that I was in I was in a dark place for for many years, and I don't think I could really truly appreciate how much it really means to have people supporting your work.
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And I've just been beaten right down back to earth, if that helps.
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If that helps at all.
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And now I am grateful for it every single day.
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And uh however I continue my career, which hopefully will be like this, continuing this, I don't need to be rich, I don't need to be famous.
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If I just have people listening to my podcast and coming to my shows, I am listen, I don't mind renting for the rest of my life.
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I don't mind renting, I don't mind living in social housing and just getting by and just having a shitty car that I love that works, and just eating yogurt and porridge.
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I really don't care.
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If I can do this for a living, the living doesn't have to be great.
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Does that make sense?
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That sounds horrible.
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But you know what I mean.
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I'm not looking to buy a house, I'm not looking to have a pool, I'm not looking to have a Tesla.
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For Jesus fucking Christ no.
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I just I would just love to do this on like whatever a normal person earns doing a normal job.
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And you're you're helping me do that.
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You're helping me do that by listening, and I really appreciate it.
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I love you so much.
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Thank you for sticking by me and uh for listening to this podcast, and that I I will update you again if things change, when things change.
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Uh and I hope you enjoy the podcast, by the way.
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I forgot to say that, because I'm really enjoying doing it, and I think we'll find our we'll find our feet, we'll figure out what it is, and then it'll just become something really special, and I I will be really happy with it.
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We'll all be really happy.
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I am happy.
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We're happy.
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Hey, hey, despite everything.
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Denmark hasn't had a government for two months.
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Um we're all a bit what the fuck is happening.
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Um everything is weird, but I like what I'm putting into the world, and I like that you're listening to it.
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I love you very much.
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Okay, bye.
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Hello dear citizens of Sophie Land.
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Uh I just thought that I would give you a little update because if you are a I don't even know if you can call yourself a regular listen listener of this podcast because it has been a regular S fuck, to be honest with you.
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Uh I started this podcast in January of this year, so what, five, six months ago?
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Five months ago?
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And I don't know if there's been a single regular thing about it, but uh I do want to at the very least keep you updated on what's happening because I know it's been gone for a little bit.
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And also it's been changing formats and blah blah blah.
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So here's where we're at now.
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So obviously the reason it's changing is because it is completely self-produced, and um that means I'm doing all of the stuff.
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There is no big company making any of the decisions, uh ploughing, that's not the right word, plowing money into it.
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Let's just use that.
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Uh it is after all my second language, and I'm speaking to you from Denmark, how impressive.
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Uh it just means that everything's up to me, and I'm doing all of it myself.
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And listen, when I started podcasting in 2014, 13?
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I think 13.
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So many years ago.
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Oh, I had my little handheld recorder, and it was all audio, and I just would upload it to SoundCloud, and then that was all I needed to do.
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I don't even know if there was social media where I could tell Twitter, maybe we had Twitter, where I could tell people about the podcast, and it was just the podcast, and then like the audio, and then Twitter, and that was that was the whole thing.
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And now, oh my god.
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First of all, the episodes are now on YouTube.
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I have a camera, I'm filming the episodes, which makes it, I'm not exaggerating, a thousand times harder and a thousand times more complicated.
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Um, but it is also just what we have to do now, right?
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That is just a thing, and I am trying to love it.
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And I a part of me does love it.
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I do I love watching podcasts now on video.
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I am really into it.
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I well, I was about to tell you which podcast I I'm not gonna advertise other people's podcasts on this.
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Why why would I do that?
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That feels not not smart, anyways.
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It's Caleb Heron's podcast uh and a few Danish ones.
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Um and I love it.
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I love I'm I I play The Sims and then I watch the podcasts on my phone and I really enjoy that.
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So I like being able to provide that for you.
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So this podcast is now on YouTube.
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So it's from Sophie Hagen, Sophie Land.
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I guess it's there.
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I guess it should be there.
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Question mark, I'm assuming you can find it.
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Um I think the first one that is on YouTube was the Crystal Evans one, Kim Blythe is on there, uh, Aubrey Gordon episode is on there, and then from now on, they should all be on YouTube.
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Uh, which also means they should be on Spotify, which I am not a hundred percent Spotify is a tricky one, um, but in theory, they should all eventually be on Spotify.
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I will figure that out.
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I mean they are there audio-wise, but I mean like the videos.
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Uh, it also means that uh I be I'll be putting out clips from them, which again takes a million years to do.
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Um, but the video aspect means that the podcast uh took a big unplanned break during the last two months when I was in Australia and New Zealand because Hotel Wi-Fi, first of all, cannot upload 30 gigabytes of video.
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Uh that was a battle, a two-month-long battle.
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And then my little tiny laptop can't edit 30 gigabytes worth of videos, and uh like it was uh what a nightmare.
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What a nightmare.
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Um but, anyways, I'm back on land.
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I'm back on land, I'm back in Europe.
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I have a big old tough computer now that should be able to handle all of it.
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I've got regular internet-ish.
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So I've just edited and uploaded and made everything ready for the Lara Ricotta episode, which will be out tomorrow.
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And uh from then on, what's gonna happen is uh there will be a regular, free, normal podcast episode every other Tuesday, starting with tomorrow.
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So tomorrow you'll get a full free episode of me chatting to Lado Dicotter.
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It's going out uh as audio and as video on YouTube, and that's just gonna be it, hopefully forever, forever, every Tuesday, every other Tuesday, every other Tuesday, you'll get a normal regular episode period, right?
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That should be the concept for now, at least, and forever, let's hope.
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We'll see.
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But at least right now, that's the plan.
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Now, I am then recording bonus episode, bonus content with the guests as well, which will then come out every other Tuesday.
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The Tuesday, where there is not a regular episode, that will come out every other Tuesday.
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Uh, which will then be, if you listen to this on the day, next Tuesday.
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Not tomorrow, but next Tuesday.
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And that will then be Substack and Patreon only.
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So if you're a paid subscriber on Substack and Patreon, you will then get the extra bonus episode.
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And if I have done this correctly, it will then also be added.
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The audio for that will then also be added to your Patreon RSS feed if you want to listen to the audio of it.
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Yeah, we're all taking deep breaths because it's admin, it's not the most exciting thing in the world.
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Some might even say it's boring, but that's where we're at right now.
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If you're a paid subscriber, you get it's now a weekly podcast.
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If you are not, it's a bi-weekly podcast.
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That is how we're gonna do it.
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That's how we're doing it, okay?
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Okay, she asks anxiously and begging, beggingly.
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And then we'll see.
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I mean, I feel I feel like the format keeps changing a little bit.
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Um it's kind of finding its feet.
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I want to make the special bonus content.
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I have a plan for that that I'm not quite sure of yet.
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So far, it's just like I just chat for another 20 minutes with the guests, I ask them a few extra questions, but I feel like I want to make something of that so it becomes its own thing.
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But I haven't quite settled on it yet.
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I have some ideas.
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I have some ideas.
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We're we're figuring it out.
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Um, and also, I think in the beginning I would do these pre-chat things.
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Like every episode was sat with me just chatting at you for like a couple of minutes about like what's happening in my life and what's going on.
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Uh, I've stopped that because, first of all, now that the episode is on, it's a video episode.
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I don't want to film myself doing these because again, it adds like so much extra to it.
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So what I'm gonna do, well, what I have been doing and what I will continue to do is these video diaries that I will sometimes upload again on Substack or Patreon, uh where I just ramble for like 20 minutes to sometimes 40 minutes about what's happening in my life and what's going on.
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And they're not weekly, but they are sometimes monthly, and it's just me kind of letting you in and you know, completely unedited, and those are filmed, by the way.
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I usually go into go to my car, drive somewhere, and just record me chatting to the camera uh and then upload them, and it's just for you guys who um who are paid subscribers.
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So so I'm gonna continue doing that, but then I won't do it in the beginning of each episode.
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So you just get to you just get to go straight to me chatting to the guest after a brief like 60 second advert.
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I don't like the word advert, but it's just me going, hi guys, please buy tickets for my shows, and please subscribe on Patreon.
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I feel like that's fine.
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You don't get those adverts if you're on YouTube, because I feel like YouTube adds their own adverts into it, unless you're a YouTube premium subscriber, which of course means you shouldn't get any adverts at all.
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Guys, what is happening with the world?
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What's going on?
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What is actually going on with the world?
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How things have changed since 2013.
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I am tempted on a daily basis to just go back to my handheld little recorder and SoundCloud and Twit well, not Twitter, who's ever tempted to go on Twitter ever.
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Wow.
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Instead, listen, we're doing this.
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We're doing this, and I'm doing this because it's fun.
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I'm doing it because I love podcasting, because I love having a direct line to you guys, because I think it's fun.
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I'm I love talking to people.
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I've had the best time recording episodes in the Australia.
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I can't wait to record episodes in Edinburgh because that's the other thing, is I live in Denmark now.
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So I can only really record episodes when I'm in the UK or when international acts come to Denmark, or if I'm in Australia, of course, or if I'm in Edinburgh, um, I'm still working on doing international podcasting over Zoom or over, you know, the internet.
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But this internet that we have here where I live is uh irregular.
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So when I was doing the Aubrey Gordon episode, it cut out five times within the hour and I was losing it.
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And uh it doesn't make for the best podcasting if you keep having to take two-minute breaks where I don't know what's happening.
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But I am working on that.
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I'm trying to find staple internet, I'm trying to figure out if there's a way I can do this.
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Because then, oh my god, the world is our oyster, right?
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We can do uh episodes with people from all over the freaking world, and trust me, I have a list.
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I have a list of people I want to interview.
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Now, um we're gonna continue.
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If you're listening to this, it means you're probably one of the the most hardcore listeners, and I cannot express how much I appreciate you.
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I'm in such a weird place in my career right now.
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I like two years ago, I was planning on quitting and never doing stand-up again.
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A year ago, I decided to give it two more years.
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Like I and now I've created this show that feels so special to me.
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I feel like I'm a good comedian for the first time in many years.
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I feel like I've created a very, very special, good show.
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And I'm gonna be honest with you, I had the word important, I was about to say important show, and then I stopped myself because I was like, okay, let's calm down, calm down, but it's definitely important to me.
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And uh it's already gotten one five-star review.
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I you know, not to mention that, but I just did.
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And it's called I Think Some of This Is My Fault.
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And if this could be if this could be my life, if I could do this podcast, and I can do this show, and I can tour this show, and that that's all I need.
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That's all and then I every some year I write a book.
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It would be the best life.
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It I would be happy on a daily basis, and I will never forget you for being with me on this journey.
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It means the whole world to me.
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I'm so grateful.
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I hope, I hope you will come and see this show.
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It would mean the world to me.
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Uh and I'm gonna end this little update with just telling you where I'll be, because so many new dates have been announced.
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I am taking it to the Emerg Fringe this August.
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I am then for the full month, by the way, and it is selling well, which I'm so grateful for.
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I'm then taking it to the Soho Theatre in November in London.
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Oh my god, guys, it's such a big room.
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Well, it's 150 seats, but I'm doing six dates.
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That is a lot of tickets.
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Nine hundred?
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A thousand?
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I can't do the maths.
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It is a lot of tickets to sell.
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Uh so I would love for you to come to that if you're anywhere near London.
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And then next year it's going on tour, baby.
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Um it's in Denmark, Copenhagen, Unser Aarhus, it's in Sweden, Melmour, Juteborg, and Stockholm.
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And I don't do you know what?
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I'm not ashamed to say.
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Well, I am, a little bit.
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Um the Melmour venue, I've never gigged in Melmour in Sweden before.
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It they put me in a 650-seater.
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I've sold two tickets.
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So if you're in Melmour, or anywhere near Melmour, ah hey, please come.
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Please come.
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Uh I'm also doing Berlin and Rotterdam.
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Uh I'm also doing the the UK dates have just been announced.
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Leicester, Sheffield, Selby, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Reading, Brighton, Cambridge, London, and Exeter.
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Uh and more dates will be announced.
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If you are like, wait a minute, where's Bristol?
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Calm down.
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Okay?
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Calm down.
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We're getting to Bristol.
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Of course I'm doing Bristol.
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Are you kidding me?
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Uh I will also be doing Leeds.
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Of course I'm doing Leeds.
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We just don't have the venue yet.
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Um Yes, I think that's it.
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Uh please do go and sign up for Patreon or Substack.
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It would mean the entire world to me.
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And I do mean this, I do mean this.
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Like I have been through ups and downs when it comes to my relationship with uh people supporting my work.
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There was a long period of time where I was I don't want to say ungrateful, but I was scared.
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Like it scared me and I felt.
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Um I don't know, that I was in I was in a dark place for for many years, and I don't think I could really truly appreciate how much it really means to have people supporting your work.
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And I've just been beaten right down back to earth, if that helps.
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If that helps at all.
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And now I am grateful for it every single day.
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And uh however I continue my career, which hopefully will be like this, continuing this, I don't need to be rich, I don't need to be famous.
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If I just have people listening to my podcast and coming to my shows, I am listen, I don't mind renting for the rest of my life.
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I don't mind renting, I don't mind living in social housing and just getting by and just having a shitty car that I love that works, and just eating yogurt and porridge.
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I really don't care.
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If I can do this for a living, the living doesn't have to be great.
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Does that make sense?
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That sounds horrible.
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But you know what I mean.
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I'm not looking to buy a house, I'm not looking to have a pool, I'm not looking to have a Tesla.
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For Jesus fucking Christ no.
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I just I would just love to do this on like whatever a normal person earns doing a normal job.
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And you're you're helping me do that.
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You're helping me do that by listening, and I really appreciate it.
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I love you so much.
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Thank you for sticking by me and uh for listening to this podcast, and that I I will update you again if things change, when things change.
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Uh and I hope you enjoy the podcast, by the way.
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I forgot to say that, because I'm really enjoying doing it, and I think we'll find our we'll find our feet, we'll figure out what it is, and then it'll just become something really special, and I I will be really happy with it.
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We'll all be really happy.
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I am happy.
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We're happy.
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Hey, hey, despite everything.
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Denmark hasn't had a government for two months.
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Um we're all a bit what the fuck is happening.
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Um everything is weird, but I like what I'm putting into the world, and I like that you're listening to it.
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I love you very much.
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Okay, bye.
