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Shameless, the pop cult podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.

You're joined, as always, by Melbourne writers, Michelle Andrews, that would be me.

And Sarah McDonald, that would be you.

Hello, Michelle Andrews, and hello, producer Eilish Gilligan.

Hello.

Hi, Gil.

Coming up on today's show, Lena Dunham has released her memoir, famesick.

There is so much to discuss in that book. We are going to focus

on the biggest player, dare I say, Mr. Jack Antonoff. I know. There's a world where we could

have done the entire book in this episode and yet we got talking about Jack Antonoff

and there was the entire episode. Otherwise we'd be here for 100 hours. This is already our longest front sheet in about three years. Just to be really honest. There's so much in here. We won't be able to cover everything. Sick name for a book, FAMSIC. Really cool. It's amazing. FAMSIC's so good. We're going to focus on Lena and Jack Antonoff and therefore, Lena, Jack Antonoff,

and a teen pop star, otherwise known as Lord. Before we get into any of that, a very quick shout

out to today's sponsor, Nespresso and the new Virtuo Up coffee machine design for style and

discovery. Thank you so much to Nisproso. Love you, Nisproso. Oh, how good. All right.

So, if you are looking for a meticulous scandal deep dive into the life and times of Lena Dunham, this is not the place for you. But there is a shameless episode for that. In fact, there are multiple. We've done that already. We've done a scandal deep dive. We can put a link in the show notes if you want more. but this will be focusing on the stuff that's come out of this new memoir.

And apologies for sometimes calling her Lennox. We've done that already. We've done a scandal deep dive. We can put a link in the show notes if you want more. But this will be focusing on the stuff that's come out of this new memoir.

And apologies for sometimes calling her Lena in that series. That is so Australian of us.

Today, we'll be calling her Lena. Appropriately. Lina. Now, I'm excited to talk about this.

Lena's memoir did drop this week. In America, yes. In America.

The big question, I guess, before we get to the Jack Antonoff of it all, because I am excited to really unpack that stuff.

I want to ask you both, why do you think Lena has decided to publish this memoir now?

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