"RE-RELEASE: Jenny Slate"

21:26And they put a bar in here in a bookstore. And so he's kind of like, he's like the store owner. And then he comes here every day to do little things for the store. But there's a lovely woman named Marianne who is the manager. And she is letting me be in her office. Can you still do all your voiceover work given the Wi-Fi limitations out there? I can, but sometimes it's really bad. Like I do it in the linen closet between my bedroom and my daughter's bedroom. And I have a little baby. Yeah, she's 17 months old. Oh, congrats. Oh, my God. That's so amazing. First of all, I thought of the name for your autobiography if you ever want one.

22:00Here we go. Here we go. Sure, let's go. Closets. Because you have a lot of closets in your life. You've got to get the slide flute out, Sean. Or just my life in closets, you know? That's really clever. Yeah, thank you. So who was the tougher transition from you from living single and having all your stuff in an orderly way? Was it harder for you to get used to living with Ben or the 17-month-old? What's been the bigger transition? Great question. That's a really good question. Take your time. It does come down to the neat freak thing. I think it was harder with the baby because also like Ben, you know, understands what I say.

22:38And so when I'm like, I don't like when that's like that, he doesn't just like be like, you know, like he can understand a threat when he hears one. Yeah, right. That's right. Yeah. Whereas the baby just doesn't understand my threats yet. Isn't that amazing how you cannot negotiate with something that doesn't speak your language? Like that was a big, big lesson for me. Like I can't just say, well, you're not having dessert tonight or whatever. Like they don't care. You got for the first couple of years, you got to just deal with it. Yeah. So, Jason, what was the age that your kids finally were able to understand, I'm going golfing today.

23:14Like, what was the – because for a while they just – you know what I mean? Yeah, that was – they were 12. But wait, so Jenny, so you have a 17-month-old daughter. Yeah. And you guys – and now you're firmly living back in Massachusetts, and Ben and his brother have opened the general store, and you're there and you've kind of, are you done with the West Coast? Are you done with LA? Are you done with New York? Are you just like, I'm going to, this is where, for now, in your mind, are you like, this is my life now living here? I like it here more, but we still have my house in LA on the east side.

23:53She must be nice, huh? On the east side. Is that what you said? Here's the thing, on the east side, on the east side in Silverland. By the way, that's a Massachusetts thing to say, by the way, which is like, oh, must be nice. Must be nice. Yeah, must be nice. What does Ben think about Los Angeles? He likes it a lot. I mean, we had two years there before the baby was born, and he was like, whoa, I can't believe you just pick an orange off the tree, and you go for hikes, and it's like very chill. I mean, we don't have like a, I don't know, like a super flashy lifestyle, so I think he was like, this is vacation-y.

24:28Like, this is pretty vacation-y, which it is. and my best friends live all around us and everything. But I will say about our house in L.A., like, it's a beautiful, small, old house. I bought it when I was single and I was, like, a heavy stoner and, like, the refrigerator is not even in the kitchen. It's in, like, a tiny room off the kitchen. And at the time, I was, like, I was single and I was, like, it's, like, under the Tuscan sun. Like, I'm just going to buy an old house and just live in here and have all my shirts and, like, this will be very romantic for me. And then he came. You know what I mean?

25:01Like, just like, oh, my blouses. Like, it's just me and my blouses, and I just don't give a hoot anymore about anything. I'm just living in my old home. And then Ben came to live with me, and I was like, oh, my God, it's so messy in here, all, like, with two people even. It's crazy. And Ben's like, where are all these shirts from? He's like, what? He never told me that you had so many blouses. We need to open a general store. Yeah. Right. Totally. Just drove him to that. So anyway, so I was like, oh, I love this house. Then he came and I was like, ooh, there's kind of a lot of stuff in here now with two people.

25:34But I felt like it was fine. And then now with the baby and also we got a dog during the pandemic, like a beautiful large border collie mix. That house is like, it's just really hard. It's way too small. And the stairs are really loud. You okay, Will? Yeah, I'm fine. Take a minute, man. Sorry. Just open your mouth. Clean the microphone a little bit, I guess. I'm sorry. Jesus Christ. It's like my favorite, favorite. Truly, I'll never have a better joke than burping. Sorry about that. Sorry about that, you guys. Welcome to Barstool Sports.

26:14So, but you guys have decided we're going to, what is your child's name? Her name is Ida, I-D-A. So you guys said, we're going to raise Ida in Massachusetts, not out here in L.A. Yeah, good choice. Tell me what's happened to you. They were like, where do you want to live? And she said, I don't know. Or Idaho. Oh, you've got it. Thanks. What happened to your weed addiction? Did you crack that while you were pregnant? You got rid of all that? Or are we back into - No, no, no. She doubled down when she was pregnant. What the fuck do you think? Yeah, I went straight to meth. Yeah, I'd like to go wide with that.

26:50I'd like to go wide with that on a podcast about how I doubled up. Nine months till the baby's here. I got to just do all the drugs. Yeah. No, I. Is it legal in Massachusetts like it is out here in California? I think it is. I think it is now. I think it is. I actually, I had like a bad moment of like, I don't know if it's possible, but I kind of think I overdosed myself on weed. I've done that. Or like when, it was not with a joint or anything. Like I used to smoke a lot of weed and I could smoke as much as possible, I guess it seemed like. But I took a CBD gummy that my friend was like, oh, you need to activate it with a THC dropper.

27:36And she was like, but you, and it was like, because I had like a back issue. I don't think CBD is really real, but that might be controversial. Either way, she was like, if you want it to work, you have to use the, yeah, the THC dropper. And she was like, but you smoke so much weed that, you know, it says between one and three droppers, you should probably take three droppers. So I was like, cool, I'll take three droppers. And then you had to call your mom. I took the three droppers. And I just I mean, it was like I think it was like the worst experience of my life, during which I tried to watch the movie Amelie and couldn't figure out what language it was in.

28:10And it's just like, what is this movie? Oh, man. Yeah. I'm trying to work it into stand up now, but it's still like a little scary that this happened. You know, it's like it's not exactly funny because I actually think I did almost die. and I threw up like outside of my bathroom because I like couldn't figure out how to get over the threshold. Like just crazy shit. Went to bed with all my clothes on, my boots, like some like little zipper up booties, like got in the bed that way. Text, I need to call for help, need to call for help. And then was like, it's too late, Jenny. It's too late. And then I looked, it was 6.45 PM and I was like, oh, it was just, it was so bad.

28:47And it was truly like, oh my God, I really was like watching Amélie being like, when did this movie get so fucking scary? And what language is this? What is this? Like, I don't know. I used to love this. Her hairstyle was so great and everything just looked crazy. But anyway, so then the next day, my friend, you know, it was Jane Levy. Do you know her? Yes. You must know. Yeah. So she gave me the THC thing. Anyway, so she called me and she was like, I got all your texts about the patriarchy. And I was like, aw. And she was like, Jenny, I'm so sorry. It wasn't not one to three droppers. It was, I misspoke.

29:34It was one to three drops. And so I took like 120 times the dose. Yeah, and I like ruined my mind. And I was like, I guess I'm off weed. And like a couple of months later, I thought I'll just take a little hit and try and get back in. And it was like it went right back to where I had been. So I'm just done forever. Yeah, I'm not going to try it. Oh, my God. So she saved you. She saved you. Yeah, in a way she saved me. Wow, that's so crazy. And we will be right back. And now back to the show. Jenny speaking of like getting freaked out and stuff you know your Netflix special called Stage Fright oh yes which is so fucking great I loved it so much thanks you talk I love the way it was shot by the way it's so cool but anyway you talk about like fear and how you hate it and you love it and it motivates you and how people say just be yourself and you were like that's the worst advice because there's a million people in my head yeah how do you choose the right pick so how do you how do you talk about like the love and the hate of performing live like what is it you what freaks you out about it I like it so much, but it must be like what adrenaline junkies are like, I guess.

30:46I mean, I don't know. But not the guy that does the free solo. I actually think that. I sound like an old woman, but that really makes me angry that he does that. There's another one. There's another one that makes him look like. There's the one that he talks about the other guy. The Alpinist. The Canadian kid. Wait, what? Yeah, isn't it called The Alpinist? And that one's really sad. The Alpinist. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, man, oh, man. What a documentary. Yeah. Yeah. Most of them don't end with, like, don't have amazing endings. No. They're not, like, a lot of times back in the parking lot at the end.

31:17Oh, you mean the guy who climbs the ice waterfall at night by himself with no ropes doesn't end well? Oh, the guy with the bears? The guy who did all those cute movies of the bears? That one I still need to see. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Also, I got busted on not seeing The Revenant the other night at dinner with my parents and my husband because I said that a Snuggie was like that guy in The Revenant who wears the bear suit. And everyone was like. Leo DiCaprio? Yeah, like truly everything. Everyone is like, what are you talking about? You're talking about Leonardo DiCaprio, like the Oscar winner, the actor, the guy.

31:57He's not the guy. He's Leonardo DiCaprio. And he doesn't wear a bear suit. Like I guess he gets attacked. I didn't see it because I was too afraid. It's stunning. You should just see that once. or just watch the YouTube special on how they shot that scene. Yeah. It's amazing. That seems like at a safe distance. Oh, my God. There's also a YouTube video about the guys getting prepared to shoot the YouTube video, which is amazing. That seems like a safe... It's mainly just in the parking lot and putting on Patagonias and shit, but it's good. No, I need to be pretty far afield, I think, of the central experience.

32:30I don't really want it. Wait, go back to the fear thing. Oh, well, yeah, I think the fear is that people don't like me, that they won't like me and that they won't think of, like, yeah, that I'll be wearing a Patagonia jacket and I'll be like. They're great jackets. They're great jackets. They're expensive. Well, they're expensive, but if you're a size large, they're great. They're great. Sorry, I just had to put that out there. They're telling just what you need to tell. Yeah. So what, so that fear of when you're up there on stage and they're not going to like you, if you play that out in your head, is it like that, oh, my God, I have no place to go?

33:02I can't, I can't hide? Right, because you still do it. Yeah, I mean, it feels like a social thing. I like it that I'm going to have to be up here and they're all going to see me like just like choking and floundering and being out of control and all the things that if I succeed at, they'll see me as a master of like, you know, the moment and like chaos and power or whatever. Not that I see it, but I think that would be the other side of it. Not that I think I'm like the master of chaos. I would imagine that you'd have to find a place of like the perfect combination between sort of an adversarial relationship with the audience, right?

33:40So that you feel sort of puffed up and strong, like a worthy adversary, and you can defend yourself. But then also kind of be a teammate with the audience too. You want to try to find that connection with them. I bet that's a real challenging place for stand-ups. I don't think I'd ever have the spine to do it. But it's like a date. Terrifying. I think of it like a date. Like you're like, the person could think. I actually think you don't have the balls to do it. Spine. Or the spine. No skeletal structure whatsoever. Or sack. I don't think you have the sack. I don't think you have any of the undercarriage to do it.

34:14Sorry, Jenny. Look, I don't have that undercarriage either. No, you do. You do.

34:21How often are you still getting up there and doing stand-up? Well, in L.A., I usually go up at Largo. and um i was trying to go like twice a week while i was there because i want to make a new special and that's harder obviously like when i want to put the baby to bed and um you know and i like it when ben sees my sets because especially after having the baby it's like oh i guess i'm just this person who like complains about like almost everything all the time i really want him to see me as someone who other people think is like literally in the cheapest way like popular like Like I would like him to, you know, like everything's fine.

34:57But I'm just like, that's such a good, I think it's such a good look, you know, up there on stage. If they're liking you, it's like, oh, right. I forgot that there's this powerful person and it is nice. But it's also really scary. But I have to do it. Do you make him the butt of any jokes? No. Either intentionally or unintentionally? When you're sharing your stuff about home and the kid and adjusting to that new life in your house, did you back into sort of throwing him under the bus at all? I used to do that on talk shows with my wife, and then she straightened me out. Did you ask permission?

35:36I didn't, and then I got my snout smacked, and then I started asking for permission, and then she started saying no, and then I started looking for different material. Sure, sure, sure. Jenny, I want to talk about, I want to leave you with Marcel the Shell because it's so good. I watched the movie last night. It's so good. Here's what I need to say. I've been a fan of Marcel the Shell with shoes on forever. I know it's been like over 10 years or something like that, right? Yeah. And I used to watch those videos all the time. And what I love about it is if you haven't seen it, all you need to know about it is in the title.

36:07It's literally Marcel a shell and he has shoes on. And you literally play a shell named Marcel. and he, how the voice, like how the voice, why the voice, are you sick of the voice? Tell us all things about Marcel because how did you think of him and are you kind of like done or more, more, more? Because I can't get enough of him. Oh, thanks. Thanks. Thanks for saying that. Sidebar really quick. I loved when Marcel played taps from his horn, which was a piece of hollow spiral macaroni. And he sleeps in his bread room, which is a bedroom made out of bread, which is fantastic. Bless him. And when he played taps, he plays Chaps that is that's like my favorite part of the that like sort of it's a sad part it's a sort of like a eulogy part and it's so funny and it's also so terribly sad but it's a spiral piece of macaroni and it's yeah it's like a shofar in my culture we call that a shofar yeah for sure there's a very a lot of secret Judaism put in there I'm not sick of the voice I love doing it it's like it feels like a you know like I don't know like a soothing thing I do it by myself a lot.

37:14I like it. Um, it came up one weekend when I was like in a hotel room, sharing hotel room with like five friends and everyone was like broke and we were all sharing a hotel room and, um, like every thing you could sleep on was being used like the cot and the two beds and like someone on the floor or whatever. And they were just like all men. And I felt like tiny and that it was like so messy and cramped in there. And I started to talk to like sort of rib people in that voice. And then, and then my partner at the time had like promised that he was going to make a video for a little show in Williamsburg and he hadn't done anything yet.

37:53And he was like, could I interview that voice? And like, maybe there'll be a character and I'll, you know, make something with it. So he interviewed me in that voice and then he made Marcel's body. And then we just like made that video. It's so cool. So is he still a part of all the stuff going forward? Yeah, Dean Fleischer-Kamp. He's the director, and we co-wrote it together with our friend Nick Paley. And yeah, yeah, he did everything. I love, there's a million one-liners, but you know what Marcel uses for skis are men's toenails. Yeah, toenails from a man. Toenail clippings, not the actual toenail, full toenail.

38:35Not the full nail. Yeah, just the clippings. Did I see a trailer for it that's coming up? Yes. Yeah, it's coming out June 24th through 824. What? And you filmed it like over a year ago, right? It took seven years to make. Wow. Jesus. Yeah, we finished it, I want to say, in the winter. Why did it take seven years? Well, because it's stop motion and we weren't, you know, we were like fully funded by CinerEach. It's like, it's not a studio. It's like basically like getting arts grants basically. which also gave us total freedom. Yeah, which was really great. And it took a long time. The film was improvised off of a long treatment.

39:17So we would like record, like improvise and then Dean and Nick would go back and cull through all the audio and start to make a script off of that and then like write things that we should say and go back into more improvising. And that process itself took about a couple of years. And then you would do the stop motion. Yeah, then I think the order was we locked, like, the audio play, like everything that Marcel and his grandmother is the only other character besides Dean. Grandmother played by Isabella Rossellini, who is incredible. Nice. And she has a beautiful voice. Yeah. And so we did, and she let us go to her farm to improvise.

39:56Where's the farm? It's in New York. Yeah. City? Yeah, it's in this city. It's so weird. It's on 56th Street. So wild. Yeah. So strange. It's just a farm. What are they? They just raise improvisers? That's amazing. Yeah, it's called Yes and Farm. Oh, my God. That's amazing. Yeah. That's so incredible. I just love that. I love that about her. Anyway, yeah, so we recorded it all, and then they filmed the live action because, like, Marcel is, you know, he's in a physical house, and obviously Dean is the real person that you sometimes see. like his hand or him walking away. They filmed all the live action, the whole movie's worth, and then they filmed the stop-motion animation on that.

40:43It's so good. I love it. I loved it so much. Please go see it if you haven't seen it. June 24th. June 24th. June 24th. This is my sister's birthday. Is that right? Happy birthday. Well, both of them because they're twins. Both of them. What are both their names real quick? Tannis and Shanley. Good. And what about your brother? Chuck. Wow. Wait, why do we test me on this all the time? Jenny, it's such a pleasure. Thank you for being here. I want everybody to go see the movie. Jenny! Jenny! You're hilarious and a delight. You really are. Gentlemen, so are you. You really are. This is really, really fun.

41:20Next time you're out in Silver Lake, come by the Smartless Studios. Oh, that'll be nice. They don't exist. Oh, they don't? You don't have to? We're building a whole compound out there to rival Isabella Rossellini's Yes and Ranch. Yes and Ranch, top of the rock. You can't miss it. It's gorgeous up there. Top of the rock. Top of the rock. She's just up there hoeing. Anyway, honey, thank you. We love you. I'm so proud of you. And I'm excited for the movie. I hope it does really well. Thank you so much. Thank you, Jenny. Please say hi to Ben and Ida. Tell her I miss her. I will. Bye, Jenny. Bye, bye, bye.

41:58Goodbye, honey. Goodbye. Goodbye. You just slam. Okay, I'll go. I go now, right? Yeah, you go now. You go. You go. I go now. Goodbye. Thank you. Bye. Bye. Bye. That's Jenny Slate, y 'all. Yeah, I love her. Jenny Slate. She is great. She's a killer. She's a killer. She's a killer. I know. Everybody knows her voices, right? But they don't know that she probably does all of them because they're all so different. I did a small movie with her. she was on camera not just the voice the face the whole acting what was the movie she's very very good I believe it's called The Longest Week wasn't a large film but she was in it and she was great I really had a good time with her she's real fun she's super fun cute, funny just adorable super talented oh my god great energy great vibe she should teach improv and voiceover stuff because I know, it was pretty good.

42:55Well, Will, so are you going to go back work out and finish that now? No, I was just finishing up, and I'm really rattled. Now I'm so hungry, obviously. Well, go get something to eat. And then I've got to go meet Jason. We've got a meeting. Yeah, we've got a lunch meeting. Hey, so what are you going to eat prior to your 1 o 'clock lunch? I am fucking... What's it going to be, though? Is it going to be a protein shake? Are you going to ruin all the work you've done this morning punching that dumb white bag. There it is. My energy has really plummeted in the last 10 minutes. It's sugar. Yeah, no, I noticed.

43:32All right, well, why don't we let you go? Yeah, go right now. I think you're coming today. We're huge fans. Oh, wait, wait, wait. And do I just slam shut? Yeah, you just slam shut. If you're feeling weak, just go grab something that looks like it's got a lot of carbohydrates in it and just take a big bye. Bye.

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