Margaret Cho

South Beach Sessions with Dan Le Batard

Meadowlark Media

Society & Culture, Sports, Comedy

4.9 • 15K Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Cho is a comedy legend. She’s worn her heart on her sleeve since the start of her career, and now she’s bearing it on South Beach Sessions. Together, Dan and Margaret explore her past: her unusual upbringing, her record and boundary-breaking impact on comedy, and her personal struggles with deep depression and anxiety. Margaret tells Dan about her childhood in the Bay Area, including her early start in comedy and performance, which emerged from a deep feeling of loneliness and being unseen. She ties her queer identity to her growth and development as an artist, but also to her isolation. And, as Margaret embarks on a new tour, they discuss the state of comedy today… including what it means to wholeheartedly push back against an administration that was supported by mainstream comics. Go see Margaret live on her “Choligarchy” tour, dates and tickets are available at margaretcho.com/tour Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Draft Kings Network. Welcome to South Beach sessions again, West Coast style, not very near South Beach.
0:32.6	We've got a comedy pioneer, a trailblazer, Margaret Cho, with us, and a real legend, Lucia.
0:40.5	That's right.
0:41.0	What can you tell us about your relationship with Lucia here?
0:44.3	Lucia is my dog.
0:45.9	She is six years old.
0:47.4	She is a beautiful Chihuahua.
0:49.2	She's a rescue dog.
0:51.4	She's my companion.
0:52.6	She helps me a lot.
0:57.5	And, you know, she's just an incredible girl. Her name, full name is Lucia Caterina. And she's just really loves people. She really loves to hang
1:06.1	out. And she's a really good girl. When you say she helps you a lot, how does she help you a lot?
1:11.2	She's just very, you know, she's my service companion.
1:14.2	She helps me with my anxiety.
1:16.0	She helps with my sleep, with my health, overall health, in general.
1:21.5	She's trying to do all sorts of different things,
1:23.4	but mostly she's just with me, you know, just to keep me centered and calm. And she's, you know,
1:32.0	very much a fan of comedy. She goes to comedy clubs every night. And so she knows when my
1:39.1	closing jokes are, so she knows to get ready and stretch, because we're about to leave. And so she loves
1:44.9	comedians. She loves the green room. She also loves being on set. And people love her on set as well.
1:51.2	You are somebody who's very open, have been throughout the entirety of your career. What is your
1:57.2	relationship with anxiety? Well, I have a kind of a long history of like anxiety and depression and for many years,
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