Hannah Gadsby
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first heard Feb 2025
last heard 10 Sep
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But, you know, like older women have these stories where they can put into context in their entire life. Like they're not, you know, and I was just missing those stories in the public sphere. I know so many old ladies and they're just like, yeah. Yeah, he's an idiot. They're all idiots, but they're fine. And, you know, I just wanted to put that breath into my own story.
It's like, you know, in my comedy, I made a lot of comedy out of the way my mum reacted and it was a way of like paved the way for my own healing to be able to make fun of it. You need the jokes. But it then... You know, it stops our ability to talk about the evolution on both sides. And we're obsessed with trauma points in our storytelling culture. Like news is nothing but scattergun trauma porn.
Like we always know what's going wrong, but we never know how stuff resolves. And I think public displays of resolution are important and missing.
Yeah. And that's happening now. Right. Right now to particularly trans kids now, because we're not talking about their humanity. We're talking about whether or not their gender is right. Like we're talking about whether we can solve gender right now. And that's, It's a political point. I see it. It's doing my head in. Like it's breaking my heart. It is excruciating to watch.
We as adults are making the same mistakes. The way we speak about these subjects are in terms of like I am right, you're wrong. It's just like can we just agree that we don't know what the hell we are and just give people what they need. Mm-hmm. And not pathologized, but this is like it is happening now as we speak. The trans kids are being politicized. Mm-hmm. That is exactly what happened to me.
It's all lies. I'm not going to read it. Like she... She's a bit scared. And fair enough. Like, you know, fair enough. It's her story too and I've got complete control over it. So she's good. She's great. Both my parents are good. I don't know. Like Dad was really sick when I was going through the –
an edit of it all and when my first you know one of my last edits of the book i think i forgot to tell people that he's fine because it's like he's dying of melanoma and he got some experimental treatment and it turns out it was a good experiment i mean who knows you know i don't even know what it was could be wombat blood we don't know but he's fine now um but it was like my
My mum and my dad are talking cheese, and they say that explicitly in the book, and he's just so accepting. He's like, oh, yeah, good one. But mum, like, has a reaction. Then she goes away, and then she has to think about it, and then she has another reaction, and then she has to think about it. So that's what's happening now. She's having to think about it, having reactions, having thoughts.
They're like, we need to know because there is no resolution there.
They are facts.
It wasn't important.
Yeah, it wasn't interesting.
Look, I think it's important to just tell stories. I think it's important to leave flexibility in the wave. The problem comes when people hold you to things and go, you're not allowed to evolve. Like that is the receiving of the story. And it's just like, But I think there's an enormous amount of healing that goes into the craft of a narrative, and that's what I do.
I spend a lot of time working out how to tell stories, and through that I learn what part of the story is important to me. And, you know, working on stage a lot, my stories evolve sometimes to their detriment. So, you know, my coming out story, for instance, was designed to make people laugh. And that's where the issue was because the punchline was enough.
But I think telling stories, I'm not frightened. I operate on the premise that it's okay to recede into the background and no one remembers who the hell I am. And I just work on the craft and then everything else will work itself out.
No problem. I would just like to acknowledge that I don't think I answered many questions directly, but I said a lot of information after you stopped talking.
Thanks. Thank you. See ya. Thank you.
Okay.
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