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Episode 365: People Like Me Better When I Cry with Jena Friedman

Forever35

Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu

Health & Fitness, Arts, Fashion & Beauty, Leisure

4.8 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Disclaimer: Adult language in this episode!


Comedian and writer Jena Friedman joins Forever35 to talk about her newfound joy in tennis, why she’s excited about her show at the Edinburgh Fringe Fest, the emotional response crying on stage evokes, and how she came to give a TED talk about AI.


Plus, a (positive) update from Elise on both Oscar’s recent misadventures and her biopsy, and from Doree about her hard-earned efforts at Sectionals. 




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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Forever 35, a podcast about the things we do to take care of ourselves. I'm Dori Schaeffrear.

0:17.4

And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums.

0:21.9

And today we have a guest who is one of those people that I've been a fan of for years. And then

0:31.6

Elise just like casually mentioned her. I was like, oh, do you know who she is? And I was like,

0:36.3

do I know who she is? I feel so bad. Yeah. I was like, oh, do you know who she is? And I was like, do I know who she is?

0:39.2

I feel so bad. Yeah, I feel so bad that I wasn't more familiar because I had the exact same

0:46.3

situation happen when I said, hey, Rob, I called home from Ted in April. And I was like,

0:52.1

I met this comedian and she's really cool and funny and I think

0:56.1

we're going to be friends. And I told him who it was. I said it was Jenna Friedman, who was on our show

1:01.7

later today. And he was like, what? Yeah. I love her. That's the appropriate reaction. Yeah, you were like,

1:08.2

oh, I met this woman at TED. That's exactly how I presented it. Yeah. But yes, just such a witty and deadpan comedian and an awesome human being. And we'll be talking with her later in this episode. But first, we have a lot to catch up on. A lot to catch up on. We do. Elise, how is your dog? Okay. My dog is alive. I think that's the

1:32.5

top line. We are all alive here. My dog is alive. He made it made it through a very scary heat stroke

1:39.0

incident while he was on his dog pack dog hike with the dog walker that we hired to do it.

1:45.1

And he's been walking with this dog pack for months, ever since he was like a smaller puppy in order to help get his energy out.

1:52.3

And the rest of the dog pack has been great.

1:54.3

No incidents.

1:55.5

But on Tuesday of last week, for whatever reason, two and a half miles into his hike, he basically passed out,

2:01.7

like tongue hanging out the side of his mouth and overheated. And by the time the Rangers and

2:07.7

the dog walker got him off the hiking trail and into the ER, the emergency vet, he was like 106 degrees. And so there was apparently acting

2:21.7

neurologically inappropriate. But he is home now. He's a little out of it because he's on a

2:26.7

bunch of meds and then his gastrointestinal system is a mess. Though that has happened every

2:32.1

time he's been hospitalized for foreign bodies that he eats.

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