#76: Margaret Cho Solves Racism
In The Thick
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4.9 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 August 2017
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the Arizona GOP used a picture of Margaret Cho and the cast from her 90’s TV show “All-American Girl” on its website, with the caption, “Asian Americans.” Let’s just say Cho wasn’t exactly happy about it, saying of the GOP, “They deserve a dodgeball to the face.”
On this special end-of-summer episode of In The Thick, Cho joins Maria and Julio to talk about the current political climate, her new tour, her upcoming show on TNT, and how Asian-Americans fit into the racial dynamic of the U.S. Oh, and also swingers.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of In Thethake is brought to you by Mickey Rooney. |
| 0:04.3 | What, wait what? |
| 0:05.6 | You know, weird sleeping around. |
| 0:07.6 | All of us kind of look a little bit the same, like all the kids, like, |
| 0:11.3 | because all of our parents were just screwing around and we don't even know who our actual |
| 0:16.2 | parents are. |
| 0:17.2 | Hey welcome to In The Thick. |
| 0:21.6 | This is a podcast about politics, race and culture from a POC perspective. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm Maria Inohosa. And I'm Gulliorica Loberila. And joining us from Los Angeles. |
| 0:30.9 | Oh my God, it is the amazing Margaret show. Margaret, welcome to the show. We're so happy. Thank you. Thank you. I'm so happy to be here. That's awesome. Thank you. You can tell we're very excited okay so |
| 0:43.1 | Margaret you have got a ton of stuff that's happening right now it's all very |
| 0:48.2 | exciting you're about to start a new tour yes which is called Fresh Off the Bloat. You've got a pilot that's on order now for a |
| 0:57.6 | new show that you're working on. It's called Highland, which we're going to get to |
| 1:01.2 | later. But first I'm wondering what are you thinking when you're looking at Trump at everything |
| 1:05.9 | that's going on politically today? |
| 1:07.4 | It's insane. |
| 1:08.4 | Yeah, I don't even understand how this happened and why this is happening. I don't know why. I blame NASCAR. I feel like |
| 1:17.6 | this has a lot to do with NASCAR and energy drinks. Not really Red Bull, mostly monster. |
| 1:25.0 | Anything that has a lot of taurine and caffeine, |
| 1:29.0 | this is fueling, not necessarily the administration, but maybe the constituency. |
| 1:35.0 | What's your temperature check? |
| 1:36.4 | Like what, how are you feeling inside about what's going on with US politics? |
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