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Ep 43: Margaret Cho on Comedy, Bisexuality, and The Slow-Carb Diet

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Comedy Comics - Self Destructive and Suicidal

stand up comics tend to fall on one side or the other. I'm much more like a downerbut i've never been a cocane, you know. But then there's people who old just want everything. That's what tena comedy is, is just obsessing over a topic. And that's fine in the contect, i stand about comedy, but it's terrible if you're just living in the world. You see some of some very similar symptoms of problems surfacing in a lot of writers as well. They're oing to be isolated, almost by definition.

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So I have to pick which of those things I'm going to say something about and actually have self-talk because like I said, I've rung the bell internally. So I know I'm annoyed about it. I have to tell myself either we're like, we're going to stop this. We're going to stop you so pissed off. Or I empower you to say something once or twice. It's fine. It's not like you can't say anything about all these things. Like I do want to have discussion if I feel like you're not texting me back or I feel like your behavior is a little strange. If stuff feels unfair, you know? Yeah. I mean, that's the thing. Like we'll talk about these. They're egregious and they're like someone that isn't respecting you or prioritizing you or they're being dishonest to you or things like that. But yeah, I mean also like sometimes you're in more notice stuff because it's colored by previous incidences or what's going on in the relationship. I just want to validate that all emotions should have a chance to be expressed in a healthy way. And if you're angry about something, then you deserve to express it in a controlled normal way. Well, yeah, a lot of this was about communication. I mean, yeah, your partner, you don't like them breathing. You're just going to vent to us about you can tell your partner stop breathing. But like some of these things. I was like, I hope that this has been expressed to your partner as well. You know what I mean? Like some of the like bad stuff. Some of the like he did this terrible thing. It's like, did you tell him or this is stuff I'll talk shit to my girlfriends about. But other stuff, if I'm really angry, just telling myself, don't be angry about this. It's not going to make myself not be angry. It's like, what's somebody tells you to relax? Never in the history of relaxing. Listen, breathe loudly did come up and I feel it and I'm not interested in living with somebody a lot of that because I don't want to hear them breathing and I don't want to be with the mouth breather. And I'm never going to sleep with a person that snores. Like, I don't know how people do it. I don't know. But I also think if you love somebody, you get past it. I do realize that. I would probably say something. I'm so annoying. I can't tell someone to not breathe. I don't, why are you breathing like that? I'm not saying don't breathe. I'm just saying don't breathe like that. I thought a pattern. I just don't like what's happening right now. Are you breathing like that? Are you okay? That's you. You're brain that I'm concerned about you. They're like, that's how I breathe. Okay, well, you guys do you on that one. Okay, there was a lot of partying. A lot of partying stuff. I hate it. I don't want to write burping. I don't want any time you burp. I don't want a relationship, but I want someone that wants to live separately. I don't want you farting all the time. I know that this is like part of life. I fart all the time. I live alone. Like, I don't want a partner that I'm fucking to be farting all the time. Go. I love farting. Every time I let out the longest, loudest one, I'm immediate. My first thought, well, my first thought is that focus. But my second thought is I'm so happy. No one's here. I think about it all the time. I've lived with long term with two partners and then I lived with one partner for like six weeks and we broke up. But I feel like poop and farts are like sacred. I don't, we can talk about it. I don't want to like smell it or hear it or be around it. I have never understood people that, listen, if you guys go to the bathroom, they're like, the door is open. Great. But like what is preventing you from shutting the door? Some couples are into this. Fine. Live your truth. Again, like our opinions are just our opinions and what we want when it comes to stuff like this. I don't want to. I don't want to be watching white lotus with my man and he rips a fart. Are you kidding me? Like it happens every once in a while. I'm saying I get it. It's telling I've never done it. I've never part of the part of the part. I want to say that it's totally natural and it happens. But they, when it's all the time and they just feel so comfortable all the time farting, I don't want to.

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