As a kid, I think I thought like 40 was like your big age, like your adult age where you know stuff and like taking inventory of what I know and can do at this age.

I'm like, oh, I wish I had learned more so I would feel more grown up. But like my body has been falling

apart since like forever. So all of that stuff feels right? Like my knees have been hurting.

This is death, sex, and money.

It's a beat working for a living. The show from WNYC about the things we think about a lot.

Have you been spending time with your ex-girlfriend?

And need to talk about more.

Oh man, I'm dying. I'm a sail.

The day before I called writer Samantha Irby, she found out I'm Anna Sale.

The day before I called writer Samantha Irby, she found out her newest book, a collection of comedic essays called, Wow, no thank you, had topped the New York Times bestseller list.

I was talking to my agent yesterday, like he called to congratulate me, and I was like, I got to hurry up and put together like six more book pitches so we can write this way. I don't know if this is going to happen again.

Sam's writing first got notice on her blog, Bitches Got to Eat. Her first book, Meat Eat, came out

in 2013. She's been working with

Abby Jacobson of Broad City on a TV version of it. And she's also written on the show Shrill

and Work in Progress, two shows that I think are really good. These days, Sam, who's now 40,

lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her wife Kirsten and Kirsten's two teenage sons.

And calling her at home while she's in isolation was a really fun way to spend a morning.

She told me, for her, this time of quarantine, doesn't feel that unusual.

My general routine is like, get up and wander around the house and try not to let any outside air touch me.

And it's the same.

It's the same.

I truly was built for these times.

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