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and wherever you find podcasts. Hello and welcome to Slate Money Travel. I'm Felix Salmon of Axios. I am here with probably the best travelled person I know and the most interesting and the

funniest and generally the most awesome Lydia Polgreen welcome. Felix, it's so great to be here.

I am such a fan of your podcasting and of your writing and of your cooking, of your hospitality, of so many things. so it's just a thrill and a delight.

It's we are going to have an amazing conversation we are going to talk about a lot of

Africa in this conversation we're going to talk about Mali and the Democratic Republic of the Congo and how often we wind up changing planes in Paris, but we're also going to talk about private jets and the Can

Advertising Festival and generally just like what it's like to travel in some of

the craziest parts of the world,

including kind of the most amazing shower situation

that I think anyone's ever gonna hear about.

But before we get to any of that, tell us a little bit about who you are.

I keep asking myself that question. Who am I? Yes. No, I am an opinion columnist for the New York Times.

That's my current job. I've been doing that for, I don't know, a little over a year.

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