the: And so, too, is the ultimate travel story.
IS: completely.
the: and travel movies. I mean, oh.
IS: And I think it’s for somebody, like your mother, your brother, your friend. I think everyone gets something out of that book. And let’s be honest, I watch movies for a bit of fashion inspo before I travel.
the: Another thing I really like about that conversation is going back to having celebrities on podcasts. You’re like, well, what am I related to, in terms of a celebrity trip? The way they travel around the world and experience the world is inherently different from mine, and that can be financially, but also by the sheer role of being famous. And yet with someone like Emma who clearly loves travel and is curious and interested in it and the places her work takes her, that relates to me.
SK: If I were to move on from Emma, another kind of experimental travel episode that I know we both loved, but especially you, was that. Rebecca Mead One, right?
the: Oh my god, I loved doing that episode. I mean, first of all, Rebecca is a fantastic writer for Mead The New Yorker. Rebecca had been on the podcast a few times before, so we had already developed a bit of rapport and rapport. So it was really nice when I was home LondonShe stays there, actually to meet him and record the episode out in the field. As someone who grew up in London it was also special in my life to be in the British Museum before it opened for the first time.
So we are in the reading room. Rebecca, you look a little surprised.
Rebecca Mead: I’m a little surprised. I mean, it’s huge. It’s too big.
the: It’s big.
RM: OK, so it was built in the 1850s with an empty courtyard.
the: I’m imagining Karl Marx here, or Virginia Woolf, it’s extraordinary.
RM: Well, if you spend a lot of time in the library, it’s not just a place for work. It’s a place for socializing and catching people’s eyes and deciding who you’re going to go out with and have a tea break with. So, I like to imagine Karl Marx not only writing Das Kapital here, but chatting with someone on the corner or deciding to go for a pint on the side of the road.