Hi everyone, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condi Nas Traveler.

I'm Lale Ari Koglu, and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.

Hello everyone.

And this week's guest is, well, a bit of a legendary one.

E. Jean Carroll is a journalist, author, and the beloved advice columnist behind Elle magazine's long-running column Ask E. Jean Carroll is a journalist, author and the beloved advice columnist behind Elle magazine's long-running column, Ask E. Jean.

And most recently, she hit the road and travelled the country to ask women, living in towns named after women, one big question, which is, What Do We Need Men for?

Her experiences are chronicled in her new book called, of course, what do we need men for,

throughout which she exposes the hideous men she encounters and reflects on the many more

hideous men she's had to face throughout her lifetime, including one President Donald Trump,

who she vividly describes as sexually assaulting her in New York's Bergdorf-Gudlin in the 1990s.

Since New York Magazine excerpted a section detailing the encounter,

she has barely left the news cycle this summer.

And we are so thrilled to talk to you, E Gene.

And thank you so much for taking the time to join us this afternoon.

Thank you, Lowe. Hello, Meredith.

I'm so happy to be here. We're so happy to have you. This is so

exciting. We've been telling everyone in the office all week that we were going to speak to you today.

Thank you. So I am curious to kind of get to the book that you just wrote, because I'm curious how

you got the idea to go with a road trip to start

with. Had you taken a lot of road trips throughout your life? Was that something that you had always had

a relationship with? Oh, Meredith. Well, as you said in the introduction, I write the Askey gene

column in L. And I've been writing it for 26 years.

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