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Margret Cho, Pride month and Almond cookies · Asian Adjacent

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  Speaker 1: It's Pride Month, and I want to mention someone who
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  Speaker 1: I don't know personally. I've never met her, but I
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  Speaker 1: would see her around town for years. When I was
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  Speaker 1: in San Francisco, I seen her live several times over
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  Speaker 1: the years. I love her stand up. I love who
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  Speaker 1: she stands for and who she is, and that's Margaret Chow.
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  Speaker 1: Margaret Chow, so we guys don't know. This was the
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  Speaker 1: first Asian American actress to have her own sitcom back
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  Speaker 1: in the nineties. Didn't last that long. American Girl didn't
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  Speaker 1: last that long, but she rebounded years later, having a
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  Speaker 1: gigantic stand up career, and she simply, she is just funny.
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  Speaker 1: I find her funny and smart and provocative, and I
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  Speaker 1: just I would love to interview her one day, and
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  Speaker 1: that's one of my dreams. She was even this we
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  Speaker 1: think it was called Fire Island. She was an au
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  Speaker 1: played mother and everybody, it's all the younger ones, and
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  Speaker 1: she was great. I just I admire her so much
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  Speaker 1: for simply being herself and any exaggerated forms of that
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  Speaker 1: on purpose, for her comedy and for her work. She
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  Speaker 1: also can be deadly serious. Her stand up specials are
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  Speaker 1: just through legendary. This she identifies as queer person. And
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  Speaker 1: again it's representation. Resentation really matters. And I know other
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  Speaker 1: and I know other Asian I know from different and
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  Speaker 1: different Asians. Obviously by those other Asian actress core actresses
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  Speaker 1: in my life who aren't rich and famous, but they
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  Speaker 1: said because of her, they found that they could do
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  Speaker 1: what she does on some level. And I think that's
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  Speaker 1: what it's. The beautiful thing is that we can show
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  Speaker 1: when we just appear and we appear in things. Usually
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  Speaker 1: the person who's the groundbreaker is busy doing the breaking
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  Speaker 1: the ground and get all the glory a lot of
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  Speaker 1: times and respect as they should because they're busy working
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  Speaker 1: it out. But there's a whole lazy that she and
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  Speaker 1: others are leaving behind as they look at as we
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  Speaker 1: look at them in front of us, like Wow, she
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  Speaker 1: can do it, I can do it. And I'm sure
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  Speaker 1: some Asian boys too. If she could do it, I
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  Speaker 1: could do it. And it's just I just I just
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  Speaker 1: want to give her flowers. I want to give her flowers.
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  Speaker 1: Ma Gonna Chell, You're the bomb. Please, if you ever
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  Speaker 1: get this to you, come on my show. I'd love
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  Speaker 1: to have you on my show. Side notes. Also, I
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  Speaker 1: know it's been a while, so we've done a show,
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  Speaker 1: we had a n I'm going this year and all
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  Speaker 1: of a sudden it kind of life gotten away a
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  Speaker 1: little bit and then and then I yeah, life gotten
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  Speaker 1: away last couple of months. So the last show was
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  Speaker 1: in April and end of April, and now it's a
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  Speaker 1: month later. When you do anything in May, so I apologize.
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  Speaker 1: I had a birthday in May. Mother's Day was in May.
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  Speaker 1: So shout out to my my mom, Wendy, who may
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  Speaker 1: she rested, you know, may she rest in peaces no
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  Speaker 1: longer with us. She was one of the best mothers
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  Speaker 1: I could have. And I've talked about it on the
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  Speaker 1: show here and just amazing. And I'm gonna get some
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  Speaker 1: more guests on the show. And also my girl Jenny
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  Speaker 1: from Racemic Atrocities, we'll get back on the show to
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  Speaker 1: you just you know, think it's kind of just it was.
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  Speaker 1: It was a whole month of me just kind of
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  Speaker 1: having fun, letting go, enjoying my birthday. I'm fifty seven now,
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  Speaker 1: kind of enjoying that. And we will go from there.
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  Speaker 1: So now I'm now I'm back. I'm back, uh and
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  Speaker 1: we are going to I was gonna talk about just funny.
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  Speaker 1: I I to talk about Rocker Chow because it's the
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  Speaker 1: Pride But before this about doing a show on almond cookies.
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  Speaker 1: I love almond cookies in the pink box everyone. I
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  Speaker 1: had some friends like, what are almond cookies in the
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  Speaker 1: little almond in the middle. They're so good. They're made
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  Speaker 1: out of almonds and almonds, flower all stuff. And it's
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  Speaker 1: just these cookies that I just I've been heading in
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  Speaker 1: a long time and just usually get them for Lunar
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  Speaker 1: New Year, and it's just I just I love them
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  Speaker 1: so much, and I see them places like it's so funny.
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  Speaker 1: I had some almond cookies last month hanging a long time,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just laughing because I'm like, I do I
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  Speaker 1: just I love them so much. I do, uh, and
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  Speaker 1: they're so good. But I was gonna do a whole
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  Speaker 1: story on that. I said, Nah, I said, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: do something a little more now I've mentioned on this show.
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  Speaker 1: But I but I really, you know, well, so I
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  Speaker 1: think it's a little a little more seriousus nowadays because
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  Speaker 1: Pride Month is something that's really I know, I'm watching
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  Speaker 1: people lose their shit. Excuse my language. Because June first
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  Speaker 1: happened and people are starting to talk about Pride Month,
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  Speaker 1: and it's really interesting to see other people just freak out.
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  Speaker 1: Year after year, there's a month to celebrate the achievements
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  Speaker 1: of gay people, the rights of gay people, the history.
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  Speaker 1: We probably would need a Pride Month if we were
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  Speaker 1: all equal, and also in our gay community, Asian gay
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  Speaker 1: Asian Americans aren't equal either in our gay community, so
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  Speaker 1: it's a whole other thing too. And gay Black Americans
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  Speaker 1: and Latina. That's all we need to come together, We
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  Speaker 1: need to come to Maybe all the cookies would do it.