Margaret Cho

Blocks w/ Neal Brennan

Neal Brennan

Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy, Mental Health

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Neal Brennan interviews Margaret Cho ('Cho Dependent', 'Notorious C.H.O.', 'I'm The One That I Want' 'All-American Girl' & much more) about the things that make her feel lonely, isolated, and like something's wrong - and how she is persevering despite these blocks. ---------------------------------------------------------- 00:00 Intro 1:14 Finding Herself 3:24 Self-Created Problems 4:54 Appealing to Outsiders 6:57 Relationships 17:26 Sponsor: BetterHelp 19:13 Sponsor: The Perfect Jean 21:17 Germaphobe 28:14 Self-esteem 32:04 Drinking, Drugs & Sobriety 44:42 Sponsor: Rocket Money 46:07 Sponsor: HelloFresh 47:58 Depression 55:07 Fear of Intimacy 1:07:08 Insomnia 1:10:38 Imposter Syndrome ---------------------------------------------------------- Follow Neal Brennan: https://www.instagram.com/nealbrennan https://twitter.com/nealbrennan https://www.tiktok.com/@mrnealbrennan Watch Neal Brennan: Crazy Good on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81728557 Watch Neal Brennan: Blocks on Netflix: https://www.netflix.com/title/81036234 Theme music by Electric Guest (unreleased). Edited by Will Hagle ---------------------------------------------------------- #podcast #comedy #mentalhealth #standup Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, it's me Neil Brennan. This is the blocks podcast. We talk about what makes people feel like something's wrong with them and then they reveal their inner life and then you get to compare it to your inner life and people like it.
0:16.0	Today's guest is a great comedian who I probably don't know when we met maybe the early 2000s I was aware of you in the early 90s
0:30.0	you weren't you on an episode of Arsenia with Dave Chappelle, Ellen De Generous, and Mark Curry?
0:35.8	Yes.
0:36.8	I remember that.
0:37.8	Yes.
0:38.8	And she's a real, all the words now are just like, that we're old, you're a trailblazer.
0:47.8	Thank you for agreeing with me.
0:48.8	Yeah, but it's true.
0:50.8	It's like you are.
0:51.8	It's Margaret Show everybody. Nice to see you.
0:54.0	Nice to see you. You are a very, in my estimation, a very original person and there's not a lot of people like you.
1:06.2	The thing I always wondered was like,
1:08.0	was it easy to be that?
1:10.4	Was it, a lot of people is just involuntary?
1:12.4	Like I can't help it, this is who I am did you
1:14.7	have to like find your actual self I think so to some degree kind of when I was
1:20.5	starting doing comedy in the 80s there was no Asian comedians so there was always
1:26.6	this concern of well should I do comedy about being Asian it seems obvious but is that something that I should do or should I
1:36.3	clean out to everything that was happening was all about observational comedy, which is somewhat mathematical, is somewhat identity less.
1:47.0	Yeah.
1:48.0	And so you wanted to see if your ability could be judged outside your identity.
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