Your Hobby is Shit
81 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago -This is a podcast about hobbies (sort of) and how fanaticism and obsessing over the insignificant whilst striving to find a purpose can make hobbies, or anything else in life rather shit.It's also about other stuff - the sharing of experiences, observations and thoughts about how we occupy our time and those who occupy it.Actually, it's about a whole lot more than that but it's called 'Your Hobby is Shit'.
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Episodes
Episode 17: (Hu)man's Best Friend
October 27, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIt’s often said that dogs are a man’s best friend. This week on I’ll put that claim to the test. I’ll also delve into breeds, size misconceptions, canine racism, the ridiculous things people say about their dogs, the stark differences between good dogs and bad ones and whether or not you’re even deserving of a dog at all.
Episode 17: Dogs
October 27, 2021 05:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBIt’s often said that dogs are a man’s best friend. This week on I’ll put that claim to the test. I’ll also delve into breeds, size misconceptions, canine racism, the ridiculous things people say about their dogs, the stark differences between good dogs and bad ones and whether or not you’re even deserving of a dog at all.
Episode 16: Gym Junkies
October 20, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBGyms are a haven for talentless, predatory, self-obsessed posers who have more in common with a budgerigar than you might think. This week Your Hobby is Shit runs a critical eye over gym junkies, their obsession with mirrors and reluctance to do proper exercise. I also pose the reasonable question, 'Why would anyone lift anything that they don't have to?' and have a few strong words regarding change room etiquette.
Episode 16: Muscles are redundant!
October 20, 2021 11:00 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBGyms are a haven for talentless, predatory, self-obsessed posers who have more in common with a budgerigar than you might think. This week Your Hobby is Shit runs a critical eye over gym junkies, their obsession with mirrors and reluctance to do proper exercise. I also pose the reasonable question, 'Why would anyone lift anything that they don't have to?' and have a few strong words regarding change room etiquette.
Episode 15: Urine is not a drink!
October 06, 2021 01:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBAccording to practitioners of urine therapy, your wee-wees can be used to enhance your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. You could believe this, or you could wake up to yourself and realise you’re a gullible and disgusting cretin. This week Your Hobby is Shit looks at the croc of rubbish that is urine therapy and the sad desperados who peddle the claptrap.
Episode 15: Urine Therapy
October 06, 2021 01:00 - 23 minutes - 16.1 MBAccording to practitioners of urine therapy, your wee-wees can be used to enhance your physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing. You could believe this, or you could wake up to yourself and realise you’re a gullible and disgusting cretin. This week Your Hobby is Shit looks at the croc of rubbish that is urine therapy and the sad desperados who peddle the claptrap.
Episode 14: Supporting an NRL team
September 29, 2021 01:00 - 43 minutes - 29.9 MBNRL stands for Neanderthal Running Loose and the players do their best to live up to the acronym. If Rugby League didn’t exist, our prisons would be much fuller, so the game does serve a valuable role in society. This week is NRL grand final week and I’m looking at all 16 NRL clubs to see what if anything each has to offer.
Episode 13: Supporting an AFL team
September 21, 2021 23:00 - 42 minutes - 28.9 MBDo you live in the present or rely on nostalgia to get you through life? Your answer could well depend on which football team you support. For AFL Grand Final week I take a look at how being a fan of each of the 18 teams is likely to impact your life. Don't worry if you're not a footy fan, there's plenty of gags for you, some cautionary tales, plus examples of the risks attached to deifying morons. Next week, I'l tear all the NRL teams a new one to help celebrate rugby league's grand final w...
Episode 12: Dibber Dobbers
September 15, 2021 03:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIs dobbing un-Australian, or are we in fact a nation encouraged to be dibber-dobbers? This week a man known for his onion eating, homophobia, misogyny and even having a dabble in politics – the one and only Tony Abbott – joins Your Hobby is Shit (well I think it was him anyway) for a discussion on dobbing. Abbott has never been fined for wearing Budgie Smugglers, but was last week fined for not wearing a mask after being dobbed on by a member of the public.
Episode 12: Dobbing (with special guest)
September 15, 2021 03:00 - 33 minutes - 23.2 MBIs dobbing un-Australian, or are we in fact a nation encouraged to be dibber-dobbers? This week a man known for his onion eating, homophobia, misogyny and even having a dabble in politics – the one and only Tony Abbott – joins Your Hobby is Shit (well I think it was him anyway) for a discussion on dobbing. Abbott has never been fined for wearing Budgie Smugglers, but was last week fined for not wearing a mask after being dobbed on by a member of the public.
Episode 11: Manscaping and Poker
September 08, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBA pair of scissors and a steady hand is where Manscaping should have started and finished. But of course, some entrepreneurial parasite identified a gap in the vanity market and Manscaping became an industry. In this week’s episode I investigate whether or not this is a good thing. Of course, it’s not. Then the game of Poker gets a going over. Once a game played among bored friends and families, Poker players are now heroes to the sort of confused men who also manscape and watch UFC. A game...
Episode 11: Subterfuge in Masculinity
September 08, 2021 07:00 - 34 minutes - 23.6 MBA pair of scissors and a steady hand is where Manscaping should have started and finished. But of course, some entrepreneurial parasite identified a gap in the vanity market and Manscaping became an industry. In this week’s episode I investigate whether or not this is a good thing. Of course, it’s not. Then the game of Poker gets a going over. Once a game played among bored friends and families, Poker players are now heroes to the sort of confused men who also manscape and watch UFC. A game...
Episode 10: Golf (and Love)
September 01, 2021 06:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBGolf is probably the most effective hobby ever invented by man to assist in his bid to circumvent maturity and responsibility. A lot of men (and an increasing number of women) claim to love golf, but do they love the game or just playing it? And what does this 'love' say about them? I'll also take a look at what love is and how it is often confused for lust, a mistake that can be made by the best of us. The question of why golfers are given archetypal alpha nicknames will be investigated. Th...
Episode 9: Hobbies for the rich and poor
August 25, 2021 03:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBIn the 'Lucky Country' of Australia we're encouraged to believe that we can 'have a go' at whatever we want. And this is true, so long as you're wealthy and probably white. This week I take a look at what hobbies the rich can afford and what's left for the poor. Also, how luck and even our names can affects our lives and opportunities. Listen up!
Episode 9: Poverty or Status Anxiety?
August 25, 2021 03:00 - 27 minutes - 18.6 MBIn the 'Lucky Country' of Australia we're encouraged to believe that we can 'have a go' at whatever we want. And this is true, so long as you're wealthy and probably white. This week I take a look at what hobbies the rich can afford and what's left for the poor. Also, how luck and even our names can affects our lives and opportunities. Listen up!
Episode 8: Drinking
August 18, 2021 02:00 - 33 minutes - 23 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit analyses Drinking, a hobby that if done properly is easily the best hobby you will ever have. I’ll give you some dos and don’ts plus some lockdown survival tips, all of which you should probably ignore. And of course, I’ll discuss those hobbyists who try and turn our favourite pastime of drinking into something that it isn’t. Listen up!
Episode 7: Influencers
August 11, 2021 00:00 - 31 minutes - 21.9 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit presents a character assassination of Influencers – facile grifters who are a sad indictment on society. I’ll investigate how these genetically gifted narcissists sell sex yet lack the courage to do it authentically and how one man would be besieged with a murderous rage simply by knowing of their existence. Listen up!
Episode 6: Rock Climbing (Indoor and Outdoor)
August 04, 2021 03:00 - 29 minutes - 20.2 MBIn response to numerous listener requests, this week on Your Hobby is Shit I investigate rock climbing. Combined with the usual hobby analysis I'll also attempt to ascertain why indoor rock climbers are the sort of people who sleep with the light on, whereas outdoor climbers are thrill-seeking exhibitionists with a strong desire to die. I'll also share a brutal yet funny incident relating to last week's episode on Foodies and an assessment of Australia's performance at the Olympics.
Episode 5: Foodies
July 28, 2021 04:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBAfter air to breathe the second most essential need of a human is food to eat, yet bizarrely, for many being a 'Foodie' is a hobby. This week Your Hobby is Shit investigates the slippery slope to oblivion society is on when it makes celebrities of people who cook your food. I also look at the empty individuals who jump on the bandwagon and start identifying as 'Foodies'. In case you're one of the few people on earth who missed my Homeschooling joke here's a link to it. https://www.youtube.c...
Episode 4: Olympics
July 21, 2021 03:00 - 25 minutes - 17.8 MBAccording to Australian commentator and sports nerd Bruce Macavaney, the Tokyo Olympics of 2021 are 'the most anticipated Olympics ever'. Does Bruce take us all for idiots? Or, in these bizarre times, is he absolutely right? Amidst the regular drivel, this week Your Hobby is Shit looks at the largest collection of hobbyists on the planet - The Olympic Games - if they'll even happen, contingency plans for if they don't, liars, cheats, previous Olympic champions and others who weren't so good.
Episode 3: Yogi Perverts (Hint: they all are)
July 14, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit takes an in depth look at yoga. Established thousands of years ago in ancient India, I explore how yoga has evolved into a Ponzi scheme and become a magnet for unhinged woman, pseudo-spiritualists, sexual predators and even those who enjoy a good old-fashioned fart.
Episode 3: Yoga
July 14, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit takes an in depth look at yoga. Established thousands of years ago in ancient India, I explore how yoga has evolved into a Ponzi scheme and become a magnet for unhinged woman, pseudo-spiritualists, sexual predators and even those who enjoy a good old-fashioned fart.
Episode 3: Yogi Perverts (which is all of them)
July 14, 2021 04:00 - 27 minutes - 18.9 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit takes an in depth look at yoga. Established thousands of years ago in ancient India, I explore how yoga has evolved into a Ponzi scheme and become a magnet for unhinged woman, pseudo-spiritualists, sexual predators and even those who enjoy a good old-fashioned fart.
Episode 2: Stand-up paddle-boring (SUP)
July 07, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit looks at perhaps the most boring activity ever invented. Wholeheartedly endorsed by the uninspired middle classes, stand-up paddle-boarding is less stimulating than listening to some vapid clown talk about their investments portfolio. But apparently, it's great for the core. Of course it is.
Episode 2: Stand-up paddle-boarding (SUP)
July 07, 2021 06:00 - 18 minutes - 12.9 MBThis week Your Hobby is Shit looks at perhaps the most boring activity ever invented. Wholeheartedly endorsed by the uninspired middle classes, stand-up paddle-boarding is less stimulating than listening to some vapid clown talk about their investments portfolio. But apparently, it's great for the core. Of course it is.
Bonus Episode: Anti-vaxxers
July 05, 2021 02:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBYour Hobby is Shit is back with an in-between bonus episode which takes a look at the societal scourge that are Anti-vaxxers and has a crack at their cowardly counterparts who claim to be 'vaccine hesitant'.
Bonus Episode: Disease friendly!
July 05, 2021 02:00 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBYour Hobby is Shit is back with an in-between bonus episode which takes a look at the societal scourge that are Anti-vaxxers and has a crack at their cowardly counterparts who claim to be 'vaccine hesitant'.
Episode 1: Cyclists are Shit!
June 30, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBYour Hobby is Shit kicks off by examining the lowest hanging fruit in the world of hobbies - cyclists and cycling.
Cycling and cyclists
June 30, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBYour Hobby is Shit kicks off by examining the lowest hanging fruit in the world of hobbies - cyclists and cycling.
Episode 1: Cycling and cyclists
June 30, 2021 06:00 - 21 minutes - 15.1 MBYour Hobby is Shit kicks off by examining the lowest hanging fruit in the world of hobbies - cyclists and cycling.
Your Hobby Is Shit - Trailer
June 28, 2021 03:00 - 2 minutes - 1.41 MBGet ready to have your hobby exposed for what it really is, shit! Episode 1 - dropping soon. Hosted by Sean Woodland