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Death, Sex & Money - Jenny Slate and Dean Fleischer-Camp Talk About Their Divorce, Anxiety, and Slowing Down

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3.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

The co-creators of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On talk about collaborating while getting divorced, navigating grief, and finding joy in the everyday.

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0:00.0

we talked to one another and told ourselves,

0:05.0

while we're killing our romantic relationship

0:08.0

to preserve our creative one.

0:10.0

That did not feel like what was happening

0:13.0

the entire time, but I think we've arrived there

0:16.0

in a way that I really am grateful for.

0:22.1

This is death, sex, and money.

0:26.4

The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot and need to talk about more.

0:34.7

I'm in a sale.

0:42.9

Thank you. I'm on a sale. Rolling, give me some levels.

0:45.1

Give you some levels?

0:47.3

Like...

0:48.3

Just like talk?

0:49.8

Like, oh, uh...

0:51.2

Marcel the Shell with Shoes-on

0:53.3

is one of our favorite movies of the past year here at the show.

0:57.1

If you don't already know him, Marcel is a small animated shell.

1:01.5

I also have shoes and...

1:03.9

A face.

1:07.4

He lives in a big, empty home with his grandmother, after most of his extended shell family has gone missing.

1:14.6

The movie is a meditation on change, aging, and loss, told through Marcel's precocious optimism.

1:22.6

Guess why I smile a lot?

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