Hi, my name is John Kim and I'm a therapist who went through his own

rebirth I share my feelings and revelations I believe in casual or clinical and

with you instead of at you. I come unrehearsed on purpose because self-help

doesn't have to be so complicated. I'm super excited about today's guest. She's such an inspiration. I remember watching her when I was in my early 20s. This was the 90s and she broke through and she was breaking stereotypes and I was watching her

she was performing in San Diego and I remember she was tatted and just

cussing and making fun of her mom and she was everything that a Korean American wasn't supposed to be and yet she was successful right she wasn't a lawyer doctor you know, didn't have a BMW in a corner office. She had jokes. She had

had authenticity. She was raw and so I remember thinking that's amazing because I grew up in the 80s and we didn't have

role models you know we had we had Kung Fu and we had We had

Asian Americans just weren't portrayed in media. And so she was one of the first to really break through.

And so what an honor of privilege to now be talking to her and interviewing her.

It was amazing. So enjoy Margaret Cho. She's also the only guest that I thought about asking if we could do the

entire episode in Korean.

And of course 99% of my audience would not understand, but my mom would and it would be the only

piece of content that my mom ever would be able to digest from her son. Of course

that did not work out because I forgot to ask her not that she would have done that anyway

on top of that I speak Korean at about a third grade level so the interview would not have been that

interesting.

Okay, enjoy Margaret Show.

Okay, so I want to start with an image.

Imagine a lake that is covered with ice and underneath the lake a lot of Asian people me included and

and then on top of the ice, I see a lot of people like mostly Caucasians, media ice skating.

And I feel like you were were one of the first to actually break through the ice.

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