Hey everyone, my guest today is actress, director, screenwriter and producer Lake Bell.

Lake's most recent credits include Black Panther, Wakanda Forever, Pam and Tommy, Harley

Quinn, and her fascinating new audiobook Inside Voice, which explores the way we sound

and how it might define us.

I have to warn you that today's call contains descriptions of violence and sexual abuse.

With that in mind, it isn't suitable for all listeners.

Uses for victims and survivors of domestic violence can be found in our show notes.

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Will you tell us about Inside Voice?

I'm enjoying it tremendously.

So Inside Voice, it's been a lifelong passion for me.

It's an audiobook.

The great news is that you don't actually have to read this book.

I'm going to read it to you and it is an auditory experience.

So it's sort of like fun with sociologies, like pop sociology where we get to dissect and

kind of investigate a tool that we often just don't take notice of, which is our voice,

of course, our speaking voice, not our singing voice and all that jazz.

But actually the one that relates to all the people around in your friends, your family,

your loved ones, your children, your parents, within your work, it's the communication

tool that we take advantage of and take for granted every day.

And I think initially I kind of became enamored of the vocal tool as something of interest,

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