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Hello, welcome to the long form podcast. I'm Max Linsky. I'm here with my co-hosts,

Aaron Lammer, Evan Ratliffe, gentlemen. Hello. Hey, afternoon, Max. What have you got for us

on the show this week? This week on the show, Dory Schifrier, who has had many media lives,

her latest media life is that she has a memoir out. It's called Thanks for Waiting.

It's sort of about her many media lives. It also just being like a late bloomer in general,

but Dory is also a podcaster. She hosts the show Forever 35 and Matt and Dory's

excellent adventure, which is all about her IVF journey. But before that, she was the executive

editor at Buzzfeed. She wrote for Gawker. She wrote for the New York Observer. Aaron is a fun

not trivia fact for you. She's the person who wrote the hipster grifter story. Whoa, whoa. Yeah,

I thought you'd like that. It's an all-time labor classic. I almost wanted to just go into

a long side car there that I'll wait till we're off air there. But it was really a blast to talk

to Dory. I've wanted to have her on the show for a long time, but it's one of these ones where I'm

glad I waited because she wrote a whole book about her like New York media life. Ready for Gawker?

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