Episode 385: So Many Podcast Recs with Lauren Passell
Forever35
Doree Shafrir & Elise Hu
4.8 • 5K Ratings
🗓️ 19 January 2026
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
Lauren Passell, the founder of Tink Media and author of Podcast the Newsletter, joins the show to recommend your next podcast listens from casual chat shows (like this one!) to true crime and everything in between. She also shares her thoughts on where podcasts are going and what she’s really digging in podcasts lately.
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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. |
| 0:15.5 | I'm Dory Schaeffrear. |
| 0:17.1 | And I'm Elise Hugh, and we're just two friends who like to talk a lot about serums. |
| 0:20.8 | Today we have an exciting guest, Lauren Passell, who is like, she's like a publicist for podcasts, but I would say she's like much more than that. |
| 0:32.6 | She's a podcast super listener. She's a podcast super fan. And she is a human curator of what to be listening to right now. |
| 0:42.5 | Long time listener of Forever 35. So we're touched and delighted by that. But also, she has led us to so many of our wonderful guests who are podcasters. And she also just as, you know, a friend and as somebody that I read, |
| 0:58.2 | she has awesome recommendations of shows that I would have never otherwise heard of. |
| 1:03.5 | So we have Lauren on the show to just talk about what's out there right now, |
| 1:07.7 | talk about big trends in the industry. |
| 1:10.1 | And we broke things down into |
| 1:12.1 | categories for y'all if you're looking for your next great listen. Yeah, I feel like people are |
| 1:17.3 | always asking for podcast recommendations. And it was just nice to hear from someone who has a lot of |
| 1:22.8 | them. Yeah. Yeah. Do you listen to anything regularly besides our own show? I listen to some news podcasts. Like I listen to like up first and I listen to the daily. Yeah. I don't actually listen to a ton of chat shows. I have to admit. Yeah. Yeah. What about you? She talks about one that I am super into or maybe I brought it up in the course of this conversation, |
| 1:44.7 | one of my favorite chat shows is if books could kill. And it's not explicitly a chat show |
| 1:52.0 | because it's also heavily researched. And it's about like airport books. And they deconstruct |
| 1:57.2 | the arguments of airport books like they take apart the four-hour work week and |
| 2:03.7 | atomic habits. They're one on the anxious generation is really fascinating. So if y'all aren't |
| 2:10.5 | already hip to if books could kill, that's a good one. And then because we live in Los Angeles |
| 2:15.3 | and we're surrounded by people who are in the entertainment industry, I also like to listen occasionally, but not regularly, to the podcasts |
| 2:22.2 | from Puck. |
| 2:23.7 | So Puck, the news organization that's sort of at the intersection of media and business in |
| 2:27.5 | Hollywood, they do a show that my friend Peter Hamby hosts called Powers That |
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