Margaret Cho on Drinking, Drugs & Sobriety 

Had no idea how cool Margaret Cho is. On my 3rd week of sobriety and feel like it was a great time to hear this clip.

I must say-- you're an exceptional interviewer, Neal. Much respect to Margaret too xx

Margaret looks AWESOME! Honestly that was my first thought. She looks great

"engagements with sobriety" I love that!

“Disprove it” is a nice way of saying “you’re crazy.”

I used to love Margaret Cho. I stil do, but I used to too. Such a great interview from her and Neal.

A 13 year dark night of the soul? Dang! Margaret is a champ!

This was a great kick in the ass for me. Really great to hear her story

I love the hungry homicidal plant theory 😂

Very interesting! Neal is great at asking those questions and Cho is great at answering them!!! Fantastic!

She was not saying she was high off one trip for 13 years. What she said was she was triggered to start using again and it lasted for 13 years.

I think a lot of people think she was high on mushrooms for 13 years. She was saying she used substances indiscriminately for 13 years. Not that she was high off one trip. I think the reason people are confused is because Neal was confused as he is typically comparing it to his year long trip/ reactivation on 5-MeO-DMT. Which was a harrowing experience as he explains it. "I wouldn't wish this o my worst enemy."

She looks amazing - so much healthier than the past 💚💛❤️

If anyone is handing out shroom smoothies... I'll take one.

Funny how this popped up on my feed. I have a similar story and just decided yesterday and even told my close friends that I'm doing this month sober.. I'm actually excited to see how it goes 🤞

Thank you Neal for a great interview. Ii have always liked Margaret Cho. She is a very strong and intelligent woman. My hat goes off to you both! :)

The dogs always know😂

Great conversation:)

I have to confess, I used this same exact life story at parties back in the day a few times myself.

Great interview ❤

fckin love your channel brother and miss cho wowzer i was in cali in the 90 s margrett was hilarious

Monk life is calling her if she thrives in an institution. I can understand if mushrooms released her from her rigidity, and I can even understand if she experienced a long, drawn out dark night after them, but going back to negative behaviours is on her, not the psilocybin.

i love margaret cho i was raised by wolves and claim her as my drag momma Thank You Margaret my King 👑 ❤

She's awesome...a good lesson here is that any extreme form of reaction to unhealthy behavior, is also unhealthy, and doesn't do the core work that it takes actually kick an addiction in real life. This kind of hit close to home since I am a 3-year recovering alcoholic who is slightly obsessed with my diet. I eat vegan most recently, but to my credit I was vegetarian before I quit drinking. I also was diagnosed with an actual mental illness at the same time I went sober. But on the other hand, I smoke a lot of weed, and have been a regular/semi regular (weed) smoker most my life. (edit: and no, I don't look like shit, I am nearly 40 and I haven't been this healthy since I was probably 20) While nothing about my diet/life is perfect, or following any sort of guide book, I just know that alcohol for me personally is the express lane towards depression and a downward spiral of shittiness. And this combo of factors in my life have kept me away from drinking to the point where I really don't have the desire to drink it anymore, and simply removing alcohol from my life adds an abundant amount of hope and lifeforce that I need. I can't tell is Cho is being funny about the conspiracy that plants have against us, but for some people like myself, I can live a pretty normal healthy lifestyle enjoying marujuana and mushrooms. I also can't tell if she's kidding about her mushroom trip lasting 13 years. I think in reality, she had a horrible trip that caused her to stop giving a fuck about life for 13 years. Margaret was likely in an extremely vulnerable, bad place when she ingested those things and likely brought upon a semi-psychotic break. Some people should never be eating mushrooms and personally I don't think it's really a "recreational" drug in the traditional sense. It's a powerful mind altering substance that can be mentally damaging if used irresponsibly. It's also has incredible potential for growth, healing and insight if used responsibly. At the end of the day the only way you can remove a bad behavior/addictive substance from your diet is to 1) truly want to and 2) keep visualizing your life and your future without these negative factors, and keep that dream alive by taking each day as it comes with as much grace as possible

That's called mushroom PTSD

I’m hearing “over-control” personality type, which isn’t conducive to traditional sobriety because their ability to control appears like “growth”.

Just for the record, it's "drinking and OTHER drugs". We really need to be clear on this message as most people think there's a difference, and that alcohol is somehow more acceptable than all the others.

I don’t know how I ended up on this channel, but I just subscribed

I love her theory.

I feel like the abuse from her childhood just left such a scar

Classic example of how doing mushrooms without proper set, setting and skills preparation can do sideways

I got an old VHS a year ago. It's called Rodney Dangerfield: Nothin Goes Right. This Woman jumps on stage when she is probably 22 years old. It's such a gift to us how BEAUTIFUL she was. And is. Gosh.

Lol Margaret. Youre dogs were not acting weird. You were flying on mushrooms and one of the golden rules of being on gooms is to not engage with animals because that shit is some freaky weird shit.

The restaurant on 3rd st was called Mojos near the Anjelica.

Really relatable from an OCD perspective

Substance use has no legit upside. Escaping without serious harm to yourself and others is the best anyone can do.

Just getting sober is not the answer. There has to be a process and accountability to others.

I didn't want to leave treatment

So lovely now.

"Grapes produce alcohol."

I too thrive in institutions. 😂

Cho’s pathology runs deep, but made her enough money to pay $30k month for a year and a half of institutionalization…

I was out for 14yrs from '93 to '06 3:03 til I bottomed out. 18 yrs sober now

As someone who took 5 geltabs not realizing quite how strong they were, which is something like the equivalent of 25 regular size doses, I can relate. I didn't feel a sense of normalcy for YEARS.

“Animals are something invented by plants to move seeds around.”

I saw her on celebrity wife swap and they showed her house and her roommate during this time. I was shocked

Psilocybin is a positive experience for most people and can cure depression and addiction. Major research on it. Promising.

WOWOWOW!

Something makes me think they evicted her from the facility after 1 year and 9 months. Fly free little bird.

She’s such an inspiration and I can listen to her all day.

i wonder if Margaret has seen the 1995 movie Safe, would LOVE to know her thoughts

Where is this Jamba Juice with the magic mushrooms? Do they offer franchises?

❤❤

Anything that is too extreme is too extreme.

I thought the title said “13 year old mushroom tip”. I was confused and concerned reading that asf

The context of her statement is misleading. From talking about a psilocybin trip to talking about 13 years of binging. The trip didn’t last 13 years, it’s physically impossible for a psilocybin trip to last that long, but it was the catalyst for 13 years of self destructive behavior. In that context, the conversation makes sense. I think even Neal was a little confounded when she followed up with the 13 year statement.

That parasite you mention lives in rodents but can only be spread by felines. It somehow turns off the innate fear rodents have of cats (their scent, specifically) so that the mouse or rat is more likely to be killed by them - and move along to other hosts. Crazy how that works

I was her limo driver once. That was the first time i ever heard her name. Had no idea she was this based

Hey Neal what happened to the pretty Ethiopian sidekick?

Has no one ever heard that moderation is the key to life. That goes for everything. Drinking, drugs, food, religion, work, EVERYTHING.

11:58 in fairness humans have been in a hot war with vegs since we invented eating.

I almost skipped this interview, bc Margaret Cho used to be more annoying (sorry!) 😂 But shes actually really cool....and maybe she was just TRiPPIN the whole time! I like the sober Margaret!!

Do you think she's seen the movie The Happening with Mark Wahlberg?

Orthorexia is where you are overly concerned/obsessed with what you eat. Sounds like a blast 🙄

Margaret Cho once followed an old bernie account I had, my personal one, too bad I deleted that account

Red Bamboo! (The vegan restaurant)

I believe 100% she's not lying about that 13 year comment. Almost 10 years to the day, I had a terrible terrible terrible mushroom experience that completely changed me. I'm still not right from it. Sure, could be psychosis that was brought out from it or other things. I know it's not mushrooms still in my system, but the mental and even physical aspect that I went through during that trip never really left. To this day, it's like I have a thin veil in front of my eyes 24/7. Like snow or fuzz. Constantly seeing black shadows and orbs in the corner of my eye. Still get a slight facial distortion here and there or colors might seem slightly off. Mental health wise, I am probably the worst I've ever been in my life ever since that day. Been homeless four times and just completely wrecked myself. To put it in perspective, I never took shrooms before nor did I really do my own research on what NOT to do. I was basically the epitome of that. I was alone, and my apartment, at night, very bad mood, depressed, etc... At first it was great. I was playing Mario and all the colors started jumping out and I kept laughing. Was loving it. Then I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Then I'm all the sudden taunting myself (or the reflection looking back at me. ). Then my reflection turned red and horns grow out of my head. The reflections started shouting threatening things at me. Saying it's going to corrupt my soul, rip me to shreds, torture me until I'm dead and then torture me some more. Next thing I know, I'm crawling around my living room growling like a f****** animal. Then I thought I was visited by aliens because there were Grays walking around. I came down, finally slept for like 3 hours and was never the same again. I'm still dealing with it today. I just can't snap out of it no matter what I do

wait shrooms last that long?!! Seems like a great value

Now I know why I don’t like cats!

Why’d he refer to it as a “weird” business she started. She didn’t call it that @ all🙄

She’s crazy af

There's no way she tripped for 13 years on a single dose.

A 13YR shroom trip 🤯🙄👍

I loved her old sitcom. The grandmother got one of those box that tracked ratings of tv shows and tried to save them. I think she was talking about her own show? Which sucked because I liked it. I also agree with the plants trying to kill us and the cat thing it’s a parasite

Law of polarity …

this woman knocks me flat--i saw her in ny, watching this interview just makes me laugh. something's 'wrong' w/becoming too vegan . . . that is AWEFUL about the 13 yr shroom trip. that's what she gets for going to Jamba Juice! uch, that's what my life was like for going to 7-11 for a day.

This is the most "LA" shit ever.

She reminds me of my mamason back in the far east she was over a hundred and put in a 12 hr day use to starch the heck out my uniform,came there with 3 sets of uniforms and came home with 6

No floating words for, "PLANTS ARE TRYING TO KILL US"?

just say no kids~ risking losing your mind and soul

I kinda dont understand what shes talking about

Sugar's good for you.

Wow, the animals responded!

I hope she find what she's looking for.

Margaret Cho is full of it.

I feel like that lifestyle is a backup plan if society fails. You’re not supposed to camp out in the don’t have to yet.

Try as I might, I can't say anything good about celebrities.

Interesting, every time I’ve taken psilocybin I’ve felt the effects for 3-4 hours. Never close to 13 years. Never even close to one year come to think of it! I need a new plug, the stuff this guy is selling me is junk! Also psilocybin helped me get off Xanax and nicotine and better moderate my problematic drinking. I’ve never heard someone insist that it’s a gateway drug before this clip, only heard of people using it to help them get off hard stuff. This lady seems insane

I thought it said mushroom tip. I thought neal was trippin

unexpected she doing drugs, and drinking on the reg.

There must have been A LOT of psilocybin in that Jamba Juice. Dang.

Yikes. I hope this was a bit

Very interesting but ...

He asked what do you think it is? It could not be more plain! When there is no relationship with God, you were constantly looking to fill that void. Most people find things that are not good for them when doing this.

Wait a minute..I thought Margaret hated white people? I saw that documentary on showtime.

11:50 what the hell is she talking about? Still on shrooms?

Complete nonsense

Nutso

Nuts. A definition of a hot mess. Tremendously talented comedian tho.

She was the hottest woman in skin-tight leather in the 90s. Talk about a happy 14 year old...