Rick Morton
speaker
332 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2019
last heard 18 Apr
Rick Morton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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No, no.
He's 34.
But, you know, I grew up in the middle of nowhere, so I guess we didn't have technology.
I know, right?
My year of living, like, mildly off the edge.
My year of barely venturing out of my house.
My year of just crushing mediocrity.
Well, I mean, so Mira Atkinson is a poet and an academic, and she's a beautiful, beautiful writer.
And we were on stage together at Newcastle Writers' Festival, and if anyone ever says nothing good comes out of writers' festivals, I got a trauma diagnosis out of this one.
It was a great festival.
Yes, we had a great time.
We did.
I'll let you fill in the blanks.
Hello, Chris Hammer.
What could it have possibly been?
And we were on stage and she read a passage from her book Traumata, specifically about this, you know, you are a child who has had something terrible happen to you and you expect terrible things to happen to you.
And then there's this one line where she mentions that,
You know, your antennae are out, constantly searching for threats.
And that was the moment where I realised that what I actually had was an actual trauma condition, not just a pretty shitty childhood.
And I was like, I need to go see a specialist.
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