Episode 383: The Joy of Adult Hobbies with Anne Helen Petersen | Culture Study Cross-Over Episode
Forever35
Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Doree and Elise are on a cross-over episode with Anne Helen Petersen’s Culture Study podcast! They chat about finding hobbies as an adult, what counts as a hobby, and how to logistically find a good hobby.
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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. |
| 0:15.7 | I'm Dory Shafrier. |
| 0:17.0 | And I'm Elise Hugh, and we are two friends who like to talk a lot about serums. Happy New Year to y'all. This is our first episode of 2026. We are here. We are so here and we have a very special episode for you today that I'm so excited about. We did a crossover episode with none other than Anne Helen Peterson, the host of the culture study podcast, the writer of the culture study newsletter. I've known Anne Helen for 10 years maybe. She worked. We worked together at BuzzFeed. I edited a lot of her work, been a longtime fan and friend of hers. She's awesome. And it was |
| 0:56.1 | really nice to get to talk to her about hobbies. Yes. So we go into hobbies because I think, |
| 1:02.8 | well, she'll tell you, she'll explain in the episode, you know, a lot of culture study podcast |
| 1:07.1 | listeners have been wanting an episode about hobbies and not just like what we do, |
| 1:12.9 | you know, in our spare time, the value of hobbies, the way you think about them, nurture |
| 1:17.6 | them, why hobbies, et cetera, et cetera. |
| 1:20.2 | So we get into all of that in this podcast episode. |
| 1:23.4 | Please enjoy it. |
| 1:24.6 | Quickly before we jump in, you can visit our website, Forever 35 Podcast.com. |
| 1:29.2 | We have links there to everything we mentioned here on the show. |
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| 1:39.3 | And new for 2026, we are doing our casual chats on video. We will also be doing a quarterly live |
| 1:48.1 | casual chat because we had so much fun doing the one a couple months ago. So join us at |
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| 2:03.5 | slash forever 35 our newsletter is also on patreon now you don't need to be a paying member to get our |
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| 2:14.2 | that you can call or text us with questions, comments, concerns for our many episodes at 7-81-591-0-390 and email us at Forever 35 Podcast at gmail.com. |
| 2:29.3 | Also, I'm just going to like quickly formally introduce Anne Helen because I don't think like we actually do that |
| 2:36.0 | as we're talking to her. So for those of you who are not familiar with Anne Helen, although I know |
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