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Death, Sex & Money

Margaret Cho's Sex Education

Death, Sex & Money

Slate Audio

Careers, Sexuality, Business, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Society & Culture

4.6 • 7.7K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2015

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

Comedian Margaret Cho frequently jokes about her wild sexual adventures. But now she says she wants something less X-rated and more like a middle school romance.  Support Death, Sex & Money by becoming a monthly sustaining member. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

When you're a gay kid, other kids sense that you're different.

0:03.0

So it's a really pretty terrifying experience.

0:06.0

But around adults, they accept me as one of their own.

0:12.0

This is death, sex and money.

0:15.0

To die, to expire, to pass on.

0:18.0

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

0:21.0

I'm scared of walking out of this room and never feeling the way I feel when I'm with you and need to talk about more.

0:27.0

We got 70 dollars, but we got a pair of girls underpants.

0:30.0

I'm Anna Sale.

0:32.0

So hi, my name is Margaret Cho, and I'm Korean.

0:35.0

I am so Korean.

0:37.0

Margaret Cho has built her career around how she feels different.

0:41.0

It's hard when you're a child of immigrants. You know, you spend half

0:47.4

your day in America and the rest of your day in a foreign land.

0:53.0

Early on, her Korean immigrant parents were often the punchline.

0:57.0

You get fucked up shit in your lunchbox. All the other kids would get granola bars and caprice and I would get dried fish. This made Margaret Cho famous. By the time she was 25

1:17.6

she'd won an American comedy award for Best Female Stand Up and she had a

1:22.3

sitcom.

1:23.0

She was the star of All-American Girl, the first prime time sitcom with a predominantly

1:28.0

Asian-American cast.

1:29.0

What do you think your mom would say if she could see us now?

1:31.0

Oh, I know what she'd say.

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