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This is Talk Easy. I'm San Francisco.

This is Talk Easy. I'm Sam for Goso.

Welcome to the show.

Today, actor and author, Jenny Slate.

As you'll hear her joking at the top, this marks her fourth appearance on the program.

Whether you're new to the show or just want a quick timeline of events, here's how it went.

We first spoke back in 2017, on the heels of her starring

roles in films like Landline and Obvious Child. At the end of that talk, Jenny made an appointment

for us to check back in in three years. We then did just that, in the middle of the pandemic in 2020,

as her debut short story collection, Little Weirds,

had just been released. Vanity Fair called the book one of the great quarantine reads.

I tend to agree. Then our third talk, which came in 2022, upon the release of her longtime

passion project, Marcel the Shell, with shoes on. She also had

recently become a mother at the time. I've always described Tonk Easy as a time capsule, and there's

no one who's come on this program that better represents that mission statement than Jenny Slate.

For talk number four, we sat in Los Angeles recently, where she was

promoting her latest project, the mini-series Dying for Sex, in which Jenny co-stars with actor

Michelle Williams. In the show, Molly, portrayed by Williams, receives a terminal cancer diagnosis,

and then promptly decides to leave her husband

of 15 years to pursue as many sexual experiences as possible. She gets the courage to go on this

journey from her best friend, Nikki, played by Slate, who stays by her side until the very end.

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