Hello, I'm Lale Arakogby, and this is Women Who Travel, a podcast for anyone who's curious about the world, both far afield and in their own backyard. Travel is inherently absurd. It's amusing, chaotic, messy. Sometimes it can be embarrassing,

and it's often, at the best of times, deeply nuanced. Sometimes we go to places with built-in prejudices that we don't always confront,

and the aim of travel is to upturn those.

My guest today tackles that head-on with humour that can be self-deprecating and often

disconcerting.

She's Chelsea Handler, the comedian and television host and bestselling author.

She's written memoirs like Life Will Be the Death of Me and You Too, hosted various documentary

series and just wrapped up her vaccinated and horny tour concluding with her December

2022 Comedy Special Revolution on Netflix.

I mean, America's such a young country.

And we don't think about that until we're a lot older, usually, typically.

Unsurprisingly, Chelsea's job has taken her all around the globe.

My last talk show, which was on Netflix, we got to see, they let us just do whatever.

We went to Russia.

We filmed in Moscow. We went to Russia. We filmed in Moscow.

We went to India.

We filmed, you know, in New Delhi and Mumbai.

And we were there for like two weeks.

We got to go to Colombia and Cartagena.

And we just went all over the world. And going to every single place is like, it's just, wow.

Like, you know, they're so different than America.

When we spoke, I was in the Arizona desert while Chelsea was at her house in Whistler, British Columbia's Winter Paradise. I think it's about negative 24 Celsius today. So that translates to

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