From Raised by Ricki: Let’s Talk About Sex, Baby! With Margaret Cho

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Relationships, Society & Culture

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Raised by Ricki is a show from our friends at Lemonada Media featuring Ricki Lake and Kalen Allen. If you like Double Date then we think you’ll love Raised by Ricki. In the 1990s, a generation of kids, teens, and young adults got home, kicked off their sneakers, and settled down in front of the TV to watch Ricki Lake. Hosted by Ricki herself alongside TV personality and digital creator Kalen Allen, Raised By Ricki revisits the 90s iconic talk show, The Ricki Lake Show, and the era to which it belonged. Part rewatch podcast, part cultural retrospective, and mostly hilarious, join Ricki and Kalen each week along with cultural icons like John Waters, Rosie O’Donnell, and Andy Cohen, past producers, former guests, former audience members and more. In this episode, the most spicy and taboo topic of all? Sex! This week, iconic comedian, actress, and musician Margaret Cho joins Ricki and Kalen to talk about sex work, sex positivity, and how society’s views on all things sex have evolved since the 90s. She talks about her time as a phone sex worker, how working at a leather dildo shop kickstarted her LGBTQIA+ advocacy, and her memories of how The Ricki Lake Show handled sex-related topics in the 90s – and what she thinks a Ricki Lake Show episode about sex work would look like today. For more Raised by Ricki, head to https://link.chtbl.com/RaisedbyRickiPodcast

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0:00.0	This season on revisionist history, we're going to the heart of America's gun violence crisis.
0:17.5	Six episodes, some weird, some whimsical, some heartbreaking, some angry, because so much
0:23.1	of what we believe about guns and assault rifles and mass shootings is actually wrong.
0:28.7	We're going to talk about TV Westerns about a crime in a little town in rural Alabama,
0:32.8	about the nuttiness of the Supreme Court, about the world of trauma surgeons, and wonder what would
0:37.2	have happened had Bobby Kennedy been shot today, and not 50 years ago. Join me and the revisionist
0:44.2	history team for our six-part chaotic ride to America's gun problem. It's our biggest series ever
0:51.3	and one you won't want to miss. The series premieres on August 31. You can binge-listen to all
0:58.3	six episodes early and add free by subscribing to Pushkin Plus on Apple Podcasts or by visiting
1:05.0	pushkin.fm slash plus. Or you can listen to the episodes weekly in the revisionist history podcast
1:12.5	feed. Hey listeners, if you're anything like us, you were a huge fan of the Ricky Lake show
1:20.4	back in the 90s. Well, Ricky Lake is back. She's breaking down all the historic moments from her
1:26.7	hit talk show on her podcast raised by Ricky. Each week, Ricky and her co-host,
1:33.3	Kaelin Allen, revisit the Ricky Lake show and the era to which it belonged.
1:38.7	It's part rewatch podcast, part cultural retrospective, raised by Ricky features conversations
1:44.4	with icons like John Waters, Andy Cohen, Sally Jesse Raphael, and more. In the episode you're about
1:51.9	to hear, Ricky sits down with Margaret Cho to talk about sex work, sex positivity, and how
1:58.3	societies views on all things sex have evolved since the 90s. They discuss how the Ricky Lake show
2:04.8	handled sex-related topics in the 90s and what they think a Ricky Lake show episode on sex work
2:10.8	would look like today. It's a great conversation and we can't wait for you to hear it.
2:15.4	To check out more episodes of Arrays by Ricky, search for the show wherever you get your podcasts
2:20.8	or click on the link in the show notes.
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