Margaret Cho 🤣

Life is Short with Justin Long

Wondery

Comedy Interviews, Society & Culture, Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 9.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Margaret Cho (The Margaret Cho) and Justin talk about her eclectic childhood in San Francisco, and what made her such a fearless comedian.

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0:00.0	Hey, prime members. You can listen to Life is Short. Add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:14.0	Several years ago I was in South Korea, Seoul, a really incredible city. One of my favorite parts about traveling sampling the local cuisine.
0:22.0	I tried everything at least once. There was basically little dried whole fish, little anchovies that came with breakfast and somebody dared me to try it.
0:34.0	I think they were filming it, so I'll do pretty much anything. Put a camera in front of you.
0:40.0	Say no more. That's a tip for all you listeners. Give her me a chance and you put a camera in front of us.
0:46.0	I'll do anything you want. I love it. Once I got past the psychological, having done put that whole fish with the eyeballs in my mouth, because we're not used to that.
0:56.0	The way I grew up, wasn't that bad. Then I tried a little bit more. You started like Jerry. It wasn't that bad. I found myself just eating it with every meal.
1:05.0	A couple years later I was in Korea town in LA and we were at a restaurant. It came in a little side dish and I couldn't touch it for some reason.
1:15.0	It was almost as if I'd become, I was no longer acclimated. I'd become deaclimated.
1:20.0	You became a marathon again. Yeah, I know. Born a marathon. I know.
1:25.0	Life could be a dream. Life could be a dream.
1:29.0	Oh, dude, you're listening to life ish. I am your American host Justin Law.
1:38.0	You feel basic.
1:46.0	Basic, I feel basic. I always feel basic. Yeah, we're basic Americans. We're like cisgender white man in America.
1:54.0	I know. We just are what we were assigned. I was just more exotic. What would you want to be? What would a nationality?
2:00.0	I mean, I like what I am. I like who I am. But I'm not only crave to be a different thing.
2:05.0	But I also recognize that I'm pretty bland. And I would like a little exotic in my life.
2:12.0	Yeah, I'm just very basic. I know. I always really am. I hate reducing myself to that.
2:18.0	I don't really believe that. But it's just also your product of your upbringing. And like you can't help that.
2:23.0	You were just born in a certain place. I know. And you're lucky. And a lot of our is like, of course.
2:27.0	I was watching that John Stewart rant. Did you hear what John Stewart was incredible?
2:32.0	He's talking about the pack deck and how a lot of senators, a lot of Republican senators flipped on it.
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