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Jenny Slate Says It's Okay to Feel Lonely

Women Who Travel | Condé Nast Traveler

Condé Nast Traveler

Society & Culture, Places & Travel

4.4636 Ratings

🗓️ 7 April 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

We're back—albeit this time from a closet in Dallas and a Brooklyn living room, rather than the podcast studio. This week, we're joined by comedian and actor Jenny Slate, who, despite growing up thinking the only way to have a relaxing vacation was at the beach, has traveled everywhere from Norway's Lofoten archipelago above the Arctic Circle to Chilean Patagonia. Along the way, she's come to terms with the fact that she may be the world's worst packer—and that feeling lonely on a solo trip doesn't have to be a bad thing. In our latest episode, we talk to her from her Massachusetts home about how she's learned to lean into adventure trips, what she treats herself to when she's on vacation, and how she's coping with social distancing and self-isolation. 

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0:00.0

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

0:09.0

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

0:13.0

Hello!

0:14.0

This week we're joined by the comedian, actress and author Jenny Slate, whose most recent book,

0:19.0

Little Weirds, came out late last year. Thank you so much

0:22.1

for joining us, Jenny. Hi, thank you for having me. Given that you're self-isolating

0:27.2

like the rest of us right now, what's home for you at the moment? Right now, I am in Massachusetts

0:33.8

and usually I live in L.A. during this time of the year, I kind of, I go to L.A. when it becomes too cold in Massachusetts, and my fiancee usually live in L.A. from early December through late April, but right before there was the stay-at-home ordinance in LA, we decided to throw a bunch of random

0:57.8

stuff in my car and drive from Los Angeles to Massachusetts in the most robotic and intense

1:05.7

road trip ever to be taken. So now I'm in Massachusetts where we do have fortunate enough to have more space

1:13.0

and be near our families, even though we're not seeing them. What is one thing that you panic-packed,

1:19.6

that you, when you unloaded the car, you were like, oh, we definitely didn't need that thing?

1:24.2

All of my clothes. All of them. All of my clothes. I brought all of my clothes. And

1:31.9

it doesn't make any sense at all. I have a lot of like jumpsuits that I've only worn one time

1:40.5

because they're too fancy. And also every time I have a jumpsuit, I'm like, why do

1:45.0

people do this? Every time you go to the bathroom, everyone knows this. I don't even know why I'm saying it, but it's like, oh, okay, here I am at like, oh, I wish I could say like the symphony, but I mean, let's get real, but here I am at a thing where I decided to wear a fancy jumpsuit and now I'm like naked in a bathroom

2:01.7

because there's only a thong under here because now also I somehow don't wear broads.

2:07.0

So all of that is what I brought like all my coats, all of this stuff and then a bunch of books

2:13.1

and, you know, we really did not pack wisely at all. And our plan also was that we were like, well, we, you know, we don't feel sick,

2:22.0

but we don't know if we've been exposed.

2:23.8

And it's, and, you know, so we're going to eat only from what we bring in the car

2:28.1

and only leave the car to, like, pump the gas or to sleep in you know like a Fairfield

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