The Ghosts of Hobbies Past

This week we’re opening the hobby graveyard.

From home gym equipment that became furniture to creative phases that lasted exactly one weekend, we’re talking about the expensive optimism behind the hobbies we swore would change our lives.

Why does buying the equipment feel like progress?

When did researching a hobby become the hobby itself?

Plus listener confessions that prove we’re not alone, a painfully relatable news story about the home gym fantasy, and a game that forces us to choose between real hobbies and the gear we never used.

If you’ve ever bought something that was supposed to make you a different person, this episode is for you.

Check out our website: https://start-talking-with-sadie-and-scott.b12sites.com/index

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

So we had some pretty fantastic weather uh last week.

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It was amazing.

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The snow was gone.

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Oh, the sun was out.

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And like all Canadians, we thought that, oh, spring is no.

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You actually thought that?

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No, because I'm logical and smart, and I said, Oh, we're gonna get hit again.

SPEAKER_04 0:20

Oh, yeah, we're just gonna get hammered. And three days later we were hammered. That last what was that? Was that yesterday? With the wind?

SPEAKER_00 0:28

Yeah, it was brutal.

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And did you see all the little snowballs that were for us forming because of the wind? I guess it was taking the top layer of the snow. It looked like when I looked outside the window, it looked like someone had a snowball fight.

SPEAKER_00 0:40

There was oh, kind of like little mini avalanches on the top of the snow because of the wind.

SPEAKER_04 0:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 0:47

Actually, now that you say that, I have seen those.

SPEAKER_04 0:49

Yeah, it was really cool. Yeah, I had I had to like pause and really think. I'm like, why is that? Ah bull, this is why.

SPEAKER_00 0:57

Yeah, it was cool. Little miniature snowman heads.

SPEAKER_04 1:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:00

Right rolling around all decapitated and everything. That was really morbid.

SPEAKER_05 1:04

Yeah.

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So then the bad weather's back, and we always know this because we we're almost approaching our one-year anniversary of Start Talking with Sadie and Scott available on all podcast platforms. And I think it was one of our first episodes. Like you drove over to my previous residence. You drove over like in a beginning of an ice storm.

SPEAKER_06 1:25

Yeah, yeah, it was horrible.

SPEAKER_00 1:26

It was absolutely ridiculous how bad that was. And we'll get another one. It always happens. Everybody's like walking around in t-shirts. I literally was it last weekend? Yeah, last weekend. It was in a t-shirt. I was I walked out and drove down to the karate store in a t-shirt, and I was like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_04 1:44

Karate store.

SPEAKER_00 1:45

Okay, so when Liam was a kid, he couldn't say variety store. Okay. So he called it a karate store.

SPEAKER_04 1:51

He gives you a lot of material. Oh, you wouldn't believe. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 1:55

Kirsty just lives her entire life now based out of Liam Liamalisms.

SPEAKER_04 2:00

Liamalisms?

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Yeah, Liam is a dictionary. Well, everybody I think everybody needs a translation book from me because I'm the one who uses them. You do use them a lot. Well, just before we start recording, you're like, what are you doing tonight? And I'm like, well, Joanna's going out, so I'm just gonna order some chicken wings and play Assassinus Creek.

SPEAKER_03 2:19

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:19

Which is actually Assassin's Creed, a very popular video game franchise available on PlayStation or Xbox.

SPEAKER_04 2:29

Well, I was trying to dissect how does that go again? Yeah, I was trying to dissect what you were saying.

SPEAKER_00 2:34

Yeah, so it's it's called we call it the karate store. So I had to go down to the karate store in a t-shirt. Now I'm walking around in my parka again.

SPEAKER_04 2:43

Wait, hold on. Is the karate store store walkable?

SPEAKER_00 2:47

No. I could ride a bike.

SPEAKER_04 2:49

Have you been walking, Scott?

SPEAKER_00 2:50

I have been around my office and like I mean literally around the building.

SPEAKER_04 2:54

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 2:54

Yeah. Our uh March, our March exercise update. How are you making out?

SPEAKER_04 2:59

I am doing really well. I've probably only missed what's the date today?

SPEAKER_00 3:04

Well, on the the day of recording, this is March 14th. So we're halfway through the month.

SPEAKER_04 3:09

Yeah, I've probably only missed three days.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Oh, we were supposed to do it every day.

SPEAKER_04 3:15

I know. No, but like my workouts are like it's not I'm lifting weights and doing an hour yoga. Schwarzenegger. No, I know. It's not bad. No, maybe two days. I don't know.

SPEAKER_05 3:28

When you're this big game.

SPEAKER_04 3:31

Well, no, because sometimes sometimes when I would do like a good workout, like I'm sore the next day, so I just want to chill. Let my body recoup, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_00 3:40

Well, uh, you are wearing your workout clothes, right?

SPEAKER_04 3:43

I'm this is my cleaning clothes.

SPEAKER_00 3:44

Yeah.

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Looking hot.

SPEAKER_00 3:46

Your clean and jerk clothes, or just your cleaning clothes?

SPEAKER_04 3:49

My clean and pardon?

SPEAKER_00 3:50

Clean and jerk. It's a move in weightlifting.

SPEAKER_04 3:53

Yeah, no, I'm fully aware. I just wanted you to say it again.

SPEAKER_00 3:56

You just wanted to say pardon. Today we're going to talk about some things because we are what we're trying to do today in the month of March, the um fitness challenge or the just get up off your ass, Scott, walk around for 20 minutes. Is we're trying to build new habits.

SPEAKER_05 4:16

Okay. We are.

SPEAKER_00 4:18

But here's the challenge is we always start these new habits slash hobbies, and they never tend to work out exactly the way we want them to, right?

SPEAKER_02 4:29

Well, but no. No, we don't.

SPEAKER_00 4:32

So we're gonna talk about that today and we're on today's show, and then we're gonna we're gonna we've got a crazy news story. We've got some more reviews, uh, more five-star reviews from listeners. Uh let me just go back into my notes here. Where were they from? I don't think they were from tremendously far away. One in Alberta and one in Nova Scotia. Oh so we're gonna we're gonna couple listener reviews, and we're gonna play a little game that has to do with habits as well. Are you ready to start talking?

SPEAKER_02 5:03

Ready to start.

SPEAKER_00 5:04

All right, let's do it. Welcome everyone to Start Talking with Sadie and Scott. My name is Scott, I'm one of your hosts.

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And I am Sadie the upper one.

SPEAKER_00 5:16

Hi, Sadie.

SPEAKER_04 5:17

Hello, Scott.

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Let's talk about some hobbies.

SPEAKER_05 5:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 5:21

Let's talk hobbies. So I am trying. Actually, when we were downstairs and I was showing you the whiskey smoking kit that I got when I don't even drink whiskey.

SPEAKER_04 5:32

Yeah, it's pretty intense, dude.

SPEAKER_00 5:34

And I was like, I wonder if I can smoke white wine with it or something like that.

SPEAKER_04 5:37

Ooh, now that's something you should try.

SPEAKER_00 5:39

Now, I do have friends who drink whiskey, and Joe likes the occasional Manhattan or old. No, actually old fashioned is her thing. She loves it.

SPEAKER_03 5:47

Whiskey's a hardcore, like especially straight up. That's a hard, like you have to like booze.

SPEAKER_00 5:52

You do.

SPEAKER_03 5:53

Yeah. That's it.

SPEAKER_00 5:54

It is an acquired taste. I can never get that burny sensation. You know that burny sensation you get? Not burning a person.

SPEAKER_04 6:00

Yeah, I get that with tequila.

SPEAKER_00 6:02

Actually, there are some tequilas, apparently, that there's no burn at all. Listen, I've tried a lot of tequila. It always has a burn. Oh, wait, hold on. Hold on. Oh. Oh, right. It always has a burn.

SPEAKER_04 6:18

Like that that's not a good thing if it's burning. Jesus.

SPEAKER_00 6:25

Oh my god, I had to do that. I am so sorry. Oh god.

SPEAKER_01 6:29

Can I do uh all black?

SPEAKER_00 6:31

There we go. Yeah. So number one. So I bought a whiskey smoking kit. And it's just two glasses, the little barrel thing. You've seen it on social everybody's seen on social media where you put it cut on top of your glass, then you use a fill and it smokes the glass. And it's supposed to make it taste like pear and apple.

SPEAKER_04 6:45

So it when it smokes, is it warm?

SPEAKER_00 6:48

Well, no. You've you've added I guess you can either do it before you add ice or you can do it after you add the ice. I've seen it done both ways. Like, and then well, I also then bought like I'm this is a this is a hobby now, and I don't even drink this.

SPEAKER_04 7:04

Have you even done you can't classify it as a hobby if you've not actually done it yet?

SPEAKER_00 7:08

Okay, so I'm gonna have to bite the bullet and probably try it myself. I'm gonna have to water it down, maybe like with some like do scotch or do bourbon or whiskey.

SPEAKER_04 7:17

And then at that point, you can tell our listeners that you have a new hobby.

SPEAKER_00 7:21

Well, I'm I have the hobby. I'm just it's more like a bartending hobby because I want to make these drinks for other people. I don't give a shit what it tastes like. I just want to do it for fun.

SPEAKER_04 7:30

You know what that means though.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

What that I'm the coolest kid on the block. Uh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 7:34

That's secondary to the fact that you have to actually invite people over and host them.

SPEAKER_00 7:38

I'm the host with the most. I'm like Monica. I'm always a good host.

SPEAKER_03 7:43

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 7:43

I just don't always want to leave my house. So if you happen to be here, I'm sure.

SPEAKER_03 7:48

Or even hang out with people.

SPEAKER_00 7:50

Exactly. So if you have Joanna, why are there 10 people in our house? Well, I guess I'll start smoking whiskey. Uh actually, Henry, he was when I Joe said that's the stupidest thing you've ever purchased. Again, like this is now, I guess, a hobby of mine that I'm gonna be doing it. Making clear round ice cubes as well. I'm all bent on that now, too.

SPEAKER_02 8:13

You share this passion with my uh father-in-law.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

He does. Roley likes to to make uh balls.

SPEAKER_04 8:20

He likes frozen balls. Clear frozen balls. Alright. Go ahead, press it all black.

SPEAKER_00 8:29

That's right. So, okay, so let's talk about some hobbies. Have you ever had a hobby? And we'll get to your one main one, but and I'm like, it could be even a hobby, like uh, okay, so I'll I'll give you another example. I thought I was gonna become a great photographer.

SPEAKER_04 8:47

Did you?

SPEAKER_00 8:47

Now it wasn't gonna be any leave vits or anything like that, but I wanted to take good photos.

SPEAKER_04 8:53

I went through a little bit of that. Like I had a proper like camera with like certain different lenses and I did too.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

Like so I spent I sold it all actually recently. I spent the$200. Bought the it's a well, it's it's an SLR camera, so that's single lens reflex for the folks who don't know what an SLR is, but it was digital. But then again, who's buying cameras with film?

SPEAKER_02 9:18

No, nobody.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

So at the end of the day, I bought a camera and I was taking pictures of flowers and trees and oh, I was going straight to people. No, I was doing a lot of inanimate objects. We had a you used to have a cottage, so I'd go up to the cottage and take a picture of a bird or a tree or whatever I could see, and then thought, oh, I'm so like artsy.

SPEAKER_04 9:36

You know what I loved? I loved my 50 lens. You know what it kind of like fuzzes everything out in the background? Yeah, that made me feel like a professional.

SPEAKER_00 9:44

Which is easily achievable now on an iPhone. All you have to do is go blur.

SPEAKER_03 9:48

Portrait.

SPEAKER_00 9:49

Pretty much it. Yeah. So that was one for me. So and then honestly, I used it for a couple of months. I would download the photos to the computer. I didn't put them in any kind of Adobe Photoshop or anything like that. I just would be like, oh, this is a really cool photo.

SPEAKER_02 10:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:04

Nowadays I could probably turn it into a movie with AI.

SPEAKER_02 10:08

You you could.

SPEAKER_00 10:09

Um, but I just ended up like it just it gets the battery dies. You forget where your charging cable is, and your kid took your charging cable, and then you're like, fuck this, fuck this.

SPEAKER_04 10:18

I'm gonna go smoke some whiskey.

SPEAKER_00 10:21

Where's the smoker?

SPEAKER_04 10:22

Where are my ice balls and Melissa?

SPEAKER_00 10:24

Well, we have a f we have a friend, her husband, our friend Nick. He one of his hobbies is smoking meat.

SPEAKER_05 10:31

Who?

SPEAKER_00 10:32

Nick and Jessica Nick, and just now he buys meat.

SPEAKER_04 10:36

He buys like he bought Ooh, can he make me some like mean ass pepperoni sticks for this vegetarians?

SPEAKER_00 10:42

Oh, I'm sure he could, actually. Yeah, no, for sure. Um right. But he bought the multi-tiered drawered one. Okay, that is sick. Like he bought the one with the offset stuff.

SPEAKER_04 10:55

So, how long has he been doing this for?

SPEAKER_00 10:57

I think this one is actually stuck. He's been doing it for quite a while.

SPEAKER_04 11:00

All right.

SPEAKER_00 11:01

Uh, three or four years, actually. Last time I was over at their house, he was hey man, you want to come see my new smoker? I'm like, again.

SPEAKER_04 11:07

I had I had a hobby that I wanted to do only because I wanted to have a hobby that would take me out of a habit. Have you ever done that?

SPEAKER_00 11:15

So like explain that to me.

SPEAKER_04 11:17

Okay, so my habit is at nighttime. If I'm not working, I'm home. Eight o'clock hits. I need snacks. I need all the snacks. I don't care what snacks, I don't care. I don't care what it is. If it's if it's free in my cupboard, it's in my mouth.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

I think every pair of menopausal woman at 8 p.m.

SPEAKER_04 11:33

needs a snack. Oh no, needs like multiple snacks. I need to snack till like 10 o'clock. It's really bad. Anyways.

SPEAKER_00 11:40

But then you go lift weights and do a clean and jerk at the gym.

SPEAKER_04 11:42

Yeah. No, I totally jerk it off. And then I lose all the keys. Okay. All right. All right. Okay. So my neighbor would, she was knitting. And I thought, ugh, like, I would love to knit. You know, I watched my uh grandmother do it. It's very relaxing. I could do something with my hands because I feel like that's part of the problem. You know, I'm I need to multitask apparently by eating and watching TV. Yeah. Well, you think? How long have you known me for? Uh I check a lot of boxes off. Um, so does so do other people in my family FYI. So I decided to knit. She came over, she taught me. I did it for, you know, on and off for a very short period of time. Flip two, this is like a year and a half later. Todd was just going through the bin of like, I have a basket that you put, you know, you roll up all your blankets and you look like a civilized human being and wow, so neat and tidy. He's going through it to wash him. He's like, Are you gonna get rid of this yarn? I'm like, oh fuck, I even forgot I did that.

SPEAKER_00 12:44

So you did what a lot of people who start new habits do. You you go all in and invest.

SPEAKER_04 12:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 12:51

You bought the needles, you bought the no, my neighbor, no, my neighbor gave it to me.

SPEAKER_04 12:55

And uh how rude is that? I haven't even given them back. I'm so sorry, Katie, if you're listening. I'll get you your needles in your yarn.

SPEAKER_00 13:01

All right. So, but that's the thing is we're spending the money.

SPEAKER_04 13:04

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:05

And this gets even more. I'm not gonna use the word controversial. This gets more difficult if you have a partner.

SPEAKER_05 13:13

Why?

SPEAKER_00 13:14

Well, because your partner's gonna be the first person to tilt their head to the side and go and question you on it. How long is this gonna last? Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 13:21

Should we really be spending money like this on your, you know, I do this with Todd all the time because he's a go big or like go home kind of guy.

SPEAKER_00 13:31

That is, I think, a human error. There's something wrong in her programming because it might be a case of keeping up with the Joneses a little bit, right? Like you see, your buddy does this, right? Like my buddy just got into golf.

SPEAKER_02 13:45

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 13:46

He had to go. He didn't just go and find a used pair or rent them at the golf course.

SPEAKER_04 13:52

Oh no, he needed two.

SPEAKER_00 14:00

All this special thing that you clip. I actually have one too, but that's he's only copying me. This little thing that clips onto the to the to your golf cart, and it holds your cigar in place while you're hitting.

unknown 14:14

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_00 14:14

So and he's buying cigars, he's got a cigar. He's all in. Now, he couldn't hit a golf ball to save his life.

SPEAKER_04 14:22

But you know what? It's sometimes it's good. Sometimes it's if you look good doing it, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 14:28

Yeah, exactly. You know what? You know how many men revel in when a woman says that sentence because it makes them feel like it's okay, so all right, so it's this this is a show. Yeah, okay, good. So so you spent all the money on golf.

unknown 14:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:45

And you go all in, and it's it might be something as simple as my wife saying, I'm gonna walk on a treadmill, honey. We don't own a treadmill. Well, I'm gonna walk on it every day. And when we watch TV, when you watch TV, we're gonna, I'm gonna walk the treadmill while we're watching three days.

SPEAKER_04 15:02

You know what I think it is? I think the initial thought and the purchase gives you that like fucking like hit of dopamine. Oh, yeah. That you're like, yeah, look at me. You know, I get to spend the money. I'm I'm I'm I'm putting all this thought in. I have so much conviction. I'm gonna do this, I'm gonna do this. It is, it's the dopamine. And then all of a sudden you just crash.

SPEAKER_00 15:24

I I did it. Well, I here, okay. So here maybe I'll give myself some credit. One day I bought a microphone and said I'm gonna start a podcast. It's been five years and I'm still podcasting and doing voiceovers. So that and I well, when I bought the the more expensive microphones, and I bought the more expensive, you know, mixing board, the road procaster that I have in front of me here, which allows me to do things like this.

SPEAKER_04 15:50

Studio Volvo One Oh You also haven't memorized the buttons.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Studio Volvo There, that's better. That's better. Okay, so you know what? I remember Joe said she's like, Well, how long is it gonna take you to make the money back?

SPEAKER_04 16:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:08

And I so that was Here's a word from our sponsors. But that's the challenge, is the spouse saying they call you out. You're not gonna do this. You're like, you know, everybody's like, I'm gonna take karate lessons and and I'm gonna go to the dojo three days a week. I'm gonna get into shape, and you go and spend a couple hundred bucks on a dogie and a dogie. Dogie. That's what it's actually called. It's not a ghee. That's just that's just a Americanized thing. It's called a dogie. So you buy you buy the or what I call them is angry white pajamas.

SPEAKER_03 16:43

So what the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Oh, it was a book about a guy who did what the martial art that I used to study, and he spent a year in Japan at the Homeboo Dojo, which is a home dojo.

SPEAKER_06 16:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 16:56

And he wrote a book about it, his year-long foray into that, and he called it Angry White Pajamas was the name of the book.

SPEAKER_05 17:03

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

I honestly don't remember his name, but if anybody's out there and they do know, please drop some notes on their Facebook page as to who wrote Angry White Pajamas, because I think I gave the book to somebody else.

SPEAKER_03 17:13

Anyway, we're pretty sure we could just look it up as well.

SPEAKER_00 17:16

I probably could Google it. I have I have the internet in front of me, I probably could. But so is there so you did photography too. So you and I are guilty of the same thing. But I didn't want to do the same thing.

SPEAKER_04 17:28

I didn't want to make money off of it.

SPEAKER_00 17:30

Neither did I. I just wanted to have people to I, you know what? Maybe it was an ego thing. I wanted people to tell me I took great photos.

SPEAKER_04 17:36

Really? I don't know what it was for me. I feel like it-I mean, listen, I have always been one to take a lot of pictures. Like I have photo album after photo album. I was always the one at 19, 18, 21. We go to bars. I was always the one taking pictures and developing the film. Yeah, always. So I I think it's just naturally in me to keep memories like that. Uh I think I just wanted really nice pictures of my kids too. So I don't have to pay people to do it for me.

SPEAKER_00 18:04

Oh no, that's true. It's expensive. It can get expensive. Yeah, no, it's expensive. It can get rid of it. I so treadmill would be one uh one thing that basically what it does is it turns into a clothes horse. Yep, it does. That's where we used to drive the sheets. Bo flexible. Oh my lord. I used to have a bow flex got rid of it.

SPEAKER_05 18:26

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:27

Well, when we moved, I lost the bolts to put it together, so it sat unassembled in our basement.

SPEAKER_04 18:34

At our previous house, so the murder basement.

SPEAKER_00 18:36

The murder basement, yes.

SPEAKER_04 18:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 18:39

So, but how do okay, so there's there's two things, and we've got some listener submissions that I'll go through. One of them is really, really funny. So how okay, so how are you I'll ask you this question because you're a married person. If you're in a relationship, do you have the power of veto to say no, you're not picking this up to your spouse? They get so excited about something they've they've been doing research, they've gone online, they've watched thousands of YouTube videos, and they're like, I'm gonna do this. And do you know that person well enough? Or do you really do you have power of veto? Okay, I don't know how good do you think you have power of veto over talk?

SPEAKER_04 19:20

I wish I did because there are many things I would have stopped. Um, many things I would have stopped. But no, are you kidding me? I he would lose his mind if he would never listen to me. If you told Joanna, no, you're not doing that. That's that's not happening. She would actually not be mad at you. She would like listen to you and really like take it in and be like, you know what, Scott? You're right.

SPEAKER_00 19:43

Honestly, it depends on what it is.

SPEAKER_04 19:46

Because if it's like she wants to shoot porn, I get it. I don't know. Like, what if that's her new hobby?

SPEAKER_00 19:54

Okay, so that would be a no.

SPEAKER_04 19:55

Like selling, like or what about selling her feet?

SPEAKER_00 19:58

Oh, if it makes us enough for a trip to Oh, really? Fucking go ahead.

SPEAKER_04 20:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 20:04

It's not like Okay. No, I don't care about I wouldn't. Well, if it got me a free trip on a cruise, sure.

SPEAKER_04 20:10

I mean, but she's wharing out her feet.

unknown 20:13

I don't care.

SPEAKER_04 20:14

Your wife at a foot whore.

SPEAKER_00 20:16

Oh, wow. Boy, we went from treadmills to foot whores. We go from treadmills to foot.

SPEAKER_04 20:24

Well, the foot whores go on the treadmill.

SPEAKER_00 20:27

Oh, don't talk to Judy. She's a foot whore.

SPEAKER_04 20:32

I love this.

SPEAKER_03 20:34

There's a whole category of people that are foot whores.

SPEAKER_00 20:37

Oh, look. Oh, and there's Janine. She's a hand whore.

SPEAKER_04 20:47

It is everything you want it to be, Scott. Everything you want it to be.

SPEAKER_00 20:50

I've never understood that foot fetish thing. Yeah, it's weird. Women make thousands of dollars doing different things. Like in people will actually direct them. Yeah. I really don't. Let's go back to bad hat hobbies. Okay, let's go back to hobbies that didn't work. Listen. Okay, so we've got some uh hobby graveyard um uh viewer submissions from this one actually came from one of our tech talkers that I sent a thing out and said, what what uh what hobbies have you taken out? So this is Marcus from Austin, Texas. Marcus bought a thousand uh oh my god, why did I say it that way? Oh who says$1,500? That's ridiculous. Marcus bought a$1,500 ceramic kiln during a pottery phase.

SPEAKER_05 21:37

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 21:39

Uh what did he say? He watched three documentaries and decided pottery was his future. He never actually plugged it in and now it's a side table in his rec room.

SPEAKER_04 21:49

You know what? I bet people come in his house and be like, wow, that's a really cool table. I I guarantee you. It's not a bad purchase, Marcus. Not a bad purchase.

SPEAKER_00 21:58

But who spends fifteen hundred dollars?

SPEAKER_04 22:01

I mean you can if you're coffee table. You've had a few. I mean, come on. Like you've never had like a you know, your little whiskey or whatever you drink and start shopping.

SPEAKER_00 22:10

Well, I don't drink whiskey, so yeah. Well, no, but here's the thing. Well, okay. Actually, you know what, before I read a couple more of our listener submissions, here's the biggest thing is does wine plus Amazon plus a mobile phone make people do this more often than it does? Have we created a generation of people that are like, I'm t you, I'm totally getting into knitting and crocheting. And they make half a sweater and then they just get bored and because we have no attention spans these days. No, we don't. Sorry, what were we talking about?

SPEAKER_04 22:49

Uh I bought a bunch of stuff off TMU for um my hobby of sourdoughing.

SPEAKER_00 22:54

Oh, yeah. So well, I was gonna bring that up. That you this is one of yours, is your sourdough journey?

SPEAKER_04 23:01

I yeah, I'm on my sourdough journey. Uh and then it arrived, and I opened it up. And I'm like, I already have all of these things. I had everything that I ordered. I'm like, Todd's like, what do you don't you already have one of those? Like, have one of those knives? I'm like, yeah, I do. Don't you have one of those banned in baskets? Yep, yep, I do. I just got really excited, I guess, and bought a package. I have no idea. I can't remember. I'd probably like I was drinking.

SPEAKER_00 23:28

Drinking Timu.

SPEAKER_04 23:29

Drinking and Timu, right? Turn you into and those stupid little games you play on TMU, they force you to play. It makes me so angry.

SPEAKER_00 23:36

No, no, I don't.

SPEAKER_04 23:37

The little thing that goes around and you get 10% or 50%.

SPEAKER_00 23:40

Yeah. They do a really good job of making you spend more money thinking that you didn't spend any money.

SPEAKER_04 23:45

Oh, I know. I know how it goes. It just got really excited about the price, I guess, and rebought things. It was so stupid.

SPEAKER_00 23:51

Okay, so I'm not gonna give you the I'm not gonna give you the location of this viewer. Oh. Listener, sorry. I will tell you afterwards where she is from.

SPEAKER_02 24:02

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:02

So this is a hobby she gave up.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

So mysterious, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 24:05

Her name is Chloe.

SPEAKER_02 24:07

I love that name.

SPEAKER_00 24:08

She fully committed to an alpine skiing identity. She bought the goggles, the skis, the ski jacket, the ski pants.

SPEAKER_05 24:18

Everything.

SPEAKER_00 24:19

She lives in Tennessee.

SPEAKER_05 24:21

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 24:22

It's a very flat state. Like they don't have moms.

SPEAKER_05 24:25

Was she planning to travel?

SPEAKER_00 24:27

I don't know, but when you're not in an area where you can do it every single weekend.

SPEAKER_04 24:33

Yeah, Chloe, you set yourself up for disaster there, girl. I mean, but here's some. She must have Instagram some like cute shit.

SPEAKER_00 24:40

She well, okay, so she's on a she's on her alpine skiing journey. She's just never gonna actually She said, and she said, I've never seen a mountain in person.

SPEAKER_04 24:52

Chloe, we should be friends. Poor thing.

SPEAKER_00 24:56

Her husband is sitting on the sideline saying, I should have, I should have vetoed this. I should have vetoed it. Yeah. Now to answer your previous question, because I don't think I answered it, um, I have no problem saying no when she comes up with some hare-brained thing that she wants to do, because especially if it's gonna cost money.

SPEAKER_04 25:16

But does she still just do it even if you say no?

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Well, I expect her to play devil's advocate for me as well. Like if she if I say to her, I think I'm going to take up pickleball, but I have to have the best pickleball racket, and then I gotta buy the the appropriate court shoes, and then I have to prepare for dislocating both my knees and the aftermath of that. So knee braces, etc. Like I would expect her to go, you're not gonna do it.

SPEAKER_04 25:42

And then what would you say to her?

SPEAKER_00 25:43

That wouldn't cause some tension and it's how you present it, I think. You have to be very good with words.

SPEAKER_04 25:50

I know Todd's very sensitive, so I yeah, I don't he would look at it like I was not supporting him.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

Well, yes, and I think a lot of spouses would say that, and they would be like, You don't appreciate me in my my alpine skiing. We live in Phoenix for crying out loud. Why the fuck are you wanting to come a skier? Okay, here's one Derek from Portland, Oregon. I briefly became interested in amateur taxidermy.

SPEAKER_05 26:22

What?

SPEAKER_00 26:23

I currently have a frozen crow in my freezer next to the frozen peas.

unknown 26:27

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 26:28

My wife has just issued me a 48-hour ultimatum to get rid of it.

SPEAKER_05 26:32

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 26:33

So I guess he wanted to go into taxidermy. Found a dead crow, put it in his freezer.

SPEAKER_05 26:39

Oh, God.

SPEAKER_00 26:40

Didn't do anything.

SPEAKER_04 26:42

Oh god. Oh no.

SPEAKER_00 26:43

Oh, Derek.

SPEAKER_04 26:44

My cousin does this for uh like she No, she doesn't do taxidermy.

SPEAKER_00 26:48

She does the other thing where the bugs we've talked about.

SPEAKER_04 26:51

Oh, yes, we have talked about it. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 26:53

Where it goes, she then sells the skeleton. That's a is that a hobby or is that a job? It's a well if if you love your hobby and you make money, you'll never hate your job.

SPEAKER_04 27:02

Uh she's yeah, I don't know. I don't know. She's an artist.

SPEAKER_00 27:09

That's um okay. Sure.

SPEAKER_04 27:12

It's kind of cool.

SPEAKER_00 27:13

I don't know, maybe.

SPEAKER_04 27:15

She finds some pretty cool moths and does some pretty cool shit.

SPEAKER_00 27:18

And then she puts pig's heads into aquariums and lets beetles eat them and Yeah, well, she makes money.

SPEAKER_04 27:26

Oh, is that me or you?

SPEAKER_00 27:30

No, that's my buddy Brad. Uh, can you think of anything else that you've tried? Or anybody you know that's tried something? Because there there's always been the pottery thing. There's always been the person who organizes game night. And that usually lasts for a little while. Uh-huh. Or someone who's really into board games. I'm really just I'm uh or puzzles. That's another one you spend thousands of dollars on puzzles. Is that a hobby or is that just a uh that's a hobby.

SPEAKER_04 28:00

No, I think that's a hobby.

SPEAKER_00 28:01

It is? Okay.

SPEAKER_04 28:02

Yeah, I think I think puzzling is a hobby. Puzzling is very puzzling to me. I could I can't. I can't. I just it the I instant frustration. It's too much happening.

SPEAKER_00 28:14

They're all you're looking at all these shapes and stuff, and you're like, Yeah, no, I'm out. I'm just it's you've immediately decided that it doesn't work.

SPEAKER_04 28:21

Well, not that it doesn't work, it's just so time consuming. I don't want to sit there, it's so boring.

SPEAKER_00 28:27

Well, we really do need to learn how to be, you know what I mean? Like knitting? Jeez, that's the slowest thing you can take.

SPEAKER_04 28:35

Well, that obviously I didn't it didn't work out well for me. It didn't fare well. So you think uh puzzling wouldn't either. Or do something a little more uh speedy.

SPEAKER_00 28:44

Okay, so the only thing I've ever seen fast in knitting is how fast their fingers move, but it still takes forever. Can you knit me a sweater, by the way?

SPEAKER_04 28:53

No. I know one I know one stitch and I could just do like a really long um scarf. That's all I got to.

SPEAKER_00 28:59

Oh.

SPEAKER_04 28:59

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:00

See how quickly you gave up that hobby?

SPEAKER_04 29:02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 29:03

I think a lot of people do it just because it keeps their like people who they my grandmother was like an amazing, like knit sweaters, yeah. My mom could crochet and knit. Beautiful. Although I always asked her to make me a um, I can't remember it, it has an official name, but you know the white woolen sweater that Irish fishermen wear?

SPEAKER_04 29:21

A fisherman's sweater.

SPEAKER_00 29:23

Okay, sure. We'll call it that.

SPEAKER_04 29:24

No, it's actually called a fisherman's sweater.

SPEAKER_00 29:26

Well, okay. I'll take sure.

SPEAKER_04 29:29

I know, but the way you're responding to me is like you're an idiot.

SPEAKER_00 29:32

Okay, Sadie. It's called a fisherman's sweater.

SPEAKER_04 29:35

It is called a fisherman's sweater.

SPEAKER_00 29:36

I remember asking Christina to get me one in Ireland, and she's like, it wouldn't fit in my suitcase.

SPEAKER_04 29:41

What a jerk.

SPEAKER_00 29:43

I know. Uh okay, so I wanted a fisherman's sweater, and my mom's like, no. And I was like, you knit all the time.

SPEAKER_02 29:50

The narwhals wear those.

SPEAKER_00 29:51

They do. No near do wells, none narwhal. I refuse to call them whale, put it on.

SPEAKER_04 29:58

I refuse to call it by its hair.

SPEAKER_00 30:01

I'm gonna put this on in I'm gonna put this on on uh our Facebook of a narwhal. I'm gonna have AI create a picture of a narwhal wearing a fisherman's sweater. Okay.

SPEAKER_04 30:11

Fine, you do that.

SPEAKER_00 30:13

Okay, so are you done? Do you have any?

SPEAKER_04 30:18

Oh boy. Are you done being an idiot? Yeah. No, I don't think so. I mean, I probably do. I just could never recall.

SPEAKER_00 30:29

We want people to leave us messages on Facebook, Instagram, send us, send us an email to start talkingpod at gmail.com and let us know if you've done anything like this where you've started a hobby and spent the money to do it, and then just completely it just turns into something that just collects dust for forever. Are you ready to move on to the crazy news stories of the day?

SPEAKER_03 30:56

Sure am.

SPEAKER_00 30:57

Alright, here we go. This is one of the stupidest news stories I've ever read.

SPEAKER_03 31:05

Uh really? Because we've read some.

SPEAKER_00 31:07

I know we've done some pretty doozy ones, but this woman belongs in the dumbass Hall of Fame.

SPEAKER_05 31:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 31:13

Alright, so I've only got the basic notes of it because uh I couldn't get the link to work. This woman called the police because she thought that there was a home intruder in her house.

SPEAKER_05 31:26

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 31:26

She was terrified.

SPEAKER_05 31:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 31:28

I'm gonna try to make it as fun a story before I give you actually what it was. Uh okay. So as she's uh hiding away in a closet, she hears this bang boom.

SPEAKER_05 31:39

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 31:40

Boom. And she's like, There's somebody in my house. There's somebody in my house. So she dials 911 as quickly as possible. And she she calls and says to the to the 911 operator, I think there's somebody in my house, and I think they're trying to kill me. All I can hear is this boom boom boom up against the bathroom door.

SPEAKER_05 32:03

Oh, where is she? Is she in the bathroom?

SPEAKER_00 32:05

She's outside of the bathroom. She's in her bedroom. Hiding in her closet. So the cops show up.

SPEAKER_02 32:11

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 32:13

I'm surprised that she did not get arrested for a bad 9-1-1 call. Because you know you can get in trouble for doing bad 9-1-1.

SPEAKER_04 32:20

I've done this in Los Angeles, by the way.

SPEAKER_00 32:22

Okay, so here's what actually happened.

SPEAKER_04 32:24

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 32:25

She closed her bathroom door and didn't realize that her Roomba was in the bathroom.

SPEAKER_05 32:31

Oh shit.

SPEAKER_00 32:31

And it tried to continue to do its root around the house. And it just kept banging on the bathroom door.

SPEAKER_04 32:38

These things are so annoying. We have one, they're so they're so stupid.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

It was bumping the door repeatedly trying to get out, so she thought she was being invaded.

SPEAKER_02 32:47

That's amazing.

SPEAKER_00 32:48

The police confirmed that the suspect was, quote unquote, a very determined robot vacuum. Like how how paranoid do you need to be that you don't a how stupid do you have to be to not realize that you've locked your roomba in your bathroom?

SPEAKER_04 33:06

Yeah, like I'm surprised she didn't hear it going because they're pretty loud.

SPEAKER_00 33:10

Fairly. Maybe quieter than we may have had ones in the I'm done with Roombas.

SPEAKER_04 33:16

Like oh me too. I'm I'm over mine. I'm always I've it's always like stuck under a bed with a cord. It's just it doesn't, it doesn't mat my house. I'm like this so stupid. I bought it thinking it would be such a good thing.

SPEAKER_00 33:27

And it's just And then you get it, you get it hooked up to the app and you set the timers, and yeah, it's gonna go off at three o'clock in the morning. And then we had to stop doing that with ours because it kept waking Joanna up.

SPEAKER_01 33:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 33:39

Because it was too loud. You know what? Actually, here's the thing for our March activity. I vacuumed today.

SPEAKER_05 33:47

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 33:47

And I was like, you know, grooving. I was getting into it. Oh my god, Scott, look at those moves, buddy. And we're working my triceps there. Because I'm pushing it forward and I'm pulling it back, just like I'm doing Bruce Rose. Yeah. I could do it in a squat position or a clean and jerk position.

SPEAKER_04 34:06

I was just could you see my face? Yeah, well, no, but I couldn't remember it. So I'm like, oh God, what am I supposed to say? Somebody jerk it off. Uh I did this. I was in Los Angeles, true story, and I was by myself.

SPEAKER_00 34:21

Was this when you were a world-famous Canadian actress?

SPEAKER_04 34:23

Sure. And then I was living with um another girl who I had done like a couple movies with, blah, blah, blah. She was gone to New York and I was there with Frank, her big dog, and their other dog. Um, can't remember. Tristan. Trista? Tristan. Anyway, besides the point. I she was right beside like kind of an alley. I don't know. I just for some reason my head space just started spinning. And I thought, I'm just gonna die tonight. I don't know why someone's gonna break in and murder me.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

But did you just watch like scream or something?

SPEAKER_04 34:55

Oh, I don't know. I don't, I have no idea. Okay, so now we're gonna flip to me trying to go to bed.

SPEAKER_00 35:00

So I thought, okay, here's you're with Frank. Who names her dog Frank?

SPEAKER_04 35:04

Frank. Well, he's uh one of those big French like bull mastiffs. Okay, something like that.

SPEAKER_00 35:10

Anyway, so I just had to call him Frank. Frank, why can't she just call him Frank?

SPEAKER_04 35:14

I don't know.

SPEAKER_00 35:15

That's pretension to the utmost.

SPEAKER_04 35:17

Okay, anyway. Take it up with someone else, okay? I love her.

SPEAKER_00 35:21

Okay, let's ignore your pretentious friend and get on with the story. Oh my gosh.

SPEAKER_04 35:26

Okay. So I get the phone. I thought, okay, I'm gonna lay down, I'm gonna try to get some sleep. I'm gonna take a sleeping pill. I took a sleeping pill. I know. I took a sleeping pill. I just had always had a few on hand just like when I traveled, because I can't chill out and and fall asleep sometimes.

SPEAKER_00 35:43

ADHD?

SPEAKER_04 35:44

Sure. Checking off all the boxes, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 35:48

So I take You know you don't check boxes, you tick boxes, right?

SPEAKER_04 35:52

I check them.

SPEAKER_00 35:52

No, you tick them.

SPEAKER_05 35:54

Who are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 35:55

You tick them. You don't check them.

SPEAKER_05 35:57

Why? Who?

SPEAKER_00 35:57

All right, I'm gonna put a poll up on the Facebook page. Do you check a box or do you tick it?

SPEAKER_04 36:01

You don't tick a box.

SPEAKER_00 36:02

You tick a box.

SPEAKER_04 36:03

You could do both.

SPEAKER_00 36:04

Yeah, take it.

SPEAKER_04 36:05

No, you check it. You check it. Anyway. So I take the sleeping pill. I decide that maybe I should have the phone set to 911. Okay. Yes. I did this.

SPEAKER_00 36:15

Okay. Is this pre-cell phones?

SPEAKER_04 36:17

No. No, I uh no, it's it we we have cell phones, but there was a home line phone because I was in Los Angeles. I probably had a really shitty plan or something. I can't remember. I did have a cell phone when I was there. Okay. Yeah. So I I can't remember why I wouldn't have used my cell phone. However, so I took her actual landline, put it to 911. So all I had to do if someone came in is just like hit it and it would go through. Well, I guess I did by mistake. Uh-oh. Because I kind of slept with it. And bang, bang, bang.

SPEAKER_00 36:48

She slept with the phone in Los Angeles.

SPEAKER_04 36:50

I was terrified. LAPD shows up, nowhere to lie. The dogs start going fucking crazy, smashing on the door, like like screaming at me to open up the door. And I was, I've never been that scared in my life. And then I'm at the door and I'm like, I'm just so scared. How do I know? It's like the police. Like, look out the window, ma'am. Sure enough, like they had to come in, search the house, talked to me, like gave me a talking to. We had to settle the dogs down. I was so embarrassed. I was crying.

SPEAKER_06 37:23

I'm like, I'm just I'm Canadian. I just was scared. I was eating all myself.

SPEAKER_04 37:28

Oh my God. It was horrible. It was like the most embarrassing thing.

SPEAKER_00 37:31

All right. So here's the here's the one question I have.

SPEAKER_04 37:33

It was so stupid.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

Were the cops like really hot too? And you, so you were doubly embarrassed.

SPEAKER_04 37:38

I can't.

SPEAKER_00 37:39

It's like getting a hot doctor at the ER.

SPEAKER_04 37:41

I can't even remember.

SPEAKER_00 37:43

You were just so hysterical. Like when you played a hysterical mom whose baby got abducted on that TV show. Flashpoint. Flashpoint. You did such a great job, and you were in it for like 30 seconds.

SPEAKER_05 37:54

I know.

SPEAKER_00 37:55

Such a great job. Okay. So you so you So I did that.

SPEAKER_04 37:58

I called the cops.

SPEAKER_00 37:59

In your sleep-deprived state. You actually sleep dialed 911.

SPEAKER_04 38:03

Yeah. It was and like, you know, you're like that's LAPD. Like that's no joke.

SPEAKER_00 38:08

Did they wave their finger at you and go to the case?

SPEAKER_04 38:09

They did, yeah. They didn't take, they didn't give me a ticket. They told me what I could have got that, and they weren't. I was just so hysterical. Anyway, yeah, I did that. I don't even know if a lot of people know that. I I kept it to myself for so long. Really? Yeah, I did. Yeah, I did.

SPEAKER_00 38:26

Yeah, you heard it here first. You heard it here first first, folks, Ferks. Folks first. You heard it here first, folks.

SPEAKER_02 38:32

I'm an idiot.

SPEAKER_00 38:33

Sadie accidentally dialed 911 in her drug-induced sleep with a bull master named Frog.

SPEAKER_04 38:43

But I'm telling you, as soon as I heard, like as that banging, I could see now what we're talking about with that with the Roomba. As soon as that banging, I thought, oh my god, it's it's coming true.

SPEAKER_00 38:55

What was the banging from?

SPEAKER_04 38:56

The police on the door.

SPEAKER_00 38:58

No, no, no. What spooked you in the first place?

SPEAKER_04 39:00

I don't I have no idea.

SPEAKER_00 39:02

Just being Zadie.

SPEAKER_04 39:03

Just being me, man. Yeah. Yeah. By myself.

SPEAKER_00 39:06

Well, we've we've talked about you, you you like being alone.

SPEAKER_04 39:10

I'm scared. Yeah, I'm a scaredy cat.

SPEAKER_00 39:12

Oh, you like being alone, but not overnight. But not overnight.

SPEAKER_04 39:16

Not to sleep.

SPEAKER_00 39:17

No.

SPEAKER_04 39:17

No, I do not like that at all.

SPEAKER_00 39:19

Right. And you like the dark.

SPEAKER_04 39:22

Love the dark.

SPEAKER_00 39:23

Well, that's weird.

SPEAKER_04 39:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 39:24

You're a weirdo.

SPEAKER_04 39:25

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 39:27

All right.

SPEAKER_04 39:27

Checking all the boxes.

SPEAKER_00 39:29

Ticking.

SPEAKER_04 39:30

Checking.

SPEAKER_00 39:31

You're ticking the boxes.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

We're checking the boxes.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

I can't I cannot wait to get this.

SPEAKER_04 39:36

I can't wait till you're wrong.

SPEAKER_00 39:37

Poll, correct. Oh, how about this?

SPEAKER_04 39:41

Can you X the box?

SPEAKER_00 39:42

No. No, no. That's like even I would check a box.

SPEAKER_04 39:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 39:47

I would prefer to tick a box. But if you asked me to X a box, I'd probably punch you in the face.

SPEAKER_04 39:52

Really? I've X boxes.

SPEAKER_00 39:54

No, you don't Xbox.

SPEAKER_04 39:55

And the kids formed.

SPEAKER_00 39:56

I'm not talking about actually filling them out. I'm talking about the linguistic side of it, not necessarily the physical side.

SPEAKER_04 40:03

Oh, okay. Well, why isn't the physical matter too?

SPEAKER_00 40:07

When you go down a list of something, a to-do list, it's tick, tick, tick, not check, check, check. But it's called No, check is if you're going through your pre-flight routine as a pilot.

SPEAKER_04 40:19

Okay, think of think of the okay, think of the action of a quote unquote tick. Now, what if if I drew that, how would you describe that to someone?

SPEAKER_00 40:29

It's a check mark. Thank you. You tick off with drawing a tick, a check mark.

SPEAKER_04 40:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 40:36

You tick a box. You don't check a box.

SPEAKER_04 40:38

You know what you need to do? Is stop talking.

SPEAKER_00 40:40

I need to f off or anything.

SPEAKER_04 40:43

You need to tick off. You need to tick off, man.

SPEAKER_00 40:46

All right. Let's get into our um I'm so worked up right now between You've gotten your daily dose of exercise in March. Your heart rate just went up to 100.

SPEAKER_04 41:01

I am. I'm feeling really agitated. I have to breathe, people. Breathe.

SPEAKER_00 41:07

Let's play a game.

SPEAKER_05 41:09

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:10

This or that.

SPEAKER_05 41:12

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 41:13

Hobby edition.

unknown 41:14

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 41:14

So we've played this or that before. Right? Hold on. I have to do the thing. What? This? Or that. I have to do the head thing. This. Or that.

SPEAKER_04 41:27

You look so stupid doing that.

SPEAKER_00 41:33

You're just like a homeless person, and I'd still tell you you're beautiful.

SPEAKER_02 41:37

Thanks, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 41:39

Alright, so this or that. Now you have to be immediate. Now fuck. I'm gonna the first one just makes me laugh. I already know the answer.

SPEAKER_05 41:48

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 41:49

You gotta answer right away. I'm gonna answer in my head and truthfully re reveal what mine would be, and then we can discuss. So first round.

SPEAKER_04 41:59

I have to answer. You say it, and then I have to say there's something.

SPEAKER_00 42:02

I'm gonna tell you what your true choices are. You have to answer right away. I'm gonna answer right away, and then we can share our answers.

SPEAKER_05 42:07

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 42:08

We don't have to decide like who what we think that the other person is gonna do. Alright, so here we go. Here are some hobbies. Sourdough starter kit or home espresso machine. I already know you're gonna say sourdough starter kit. Of course. Of course. So I would say sourdough as well, because I do like sourdough bread, but I'm interested with the home espresso machine? That is a thing.

SPEAKER_02 42:33

I like espresso.

SPEAKER_00 42:35

But everybody does I'm gonna buy the thing with with the Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 42:40

Oh my god. Keep doing what you're doing there, Scott.

SPEAKER_00 42:44

I'm I'm pretending I'm miming that I'm putting cups underneath the steam thing.

SPEAKER_04 42:49

So my hands are making a do you know when you clean when you clean an espresso uh machine, you know the little the thing that puts out the air, it looks like you're masturbating it. Is that what you have to do with that? Whacking it off. I do. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:01

So um, but that is another big that's a big habit. Like, or sorry, not a habit. That's a big hobby. People are really into buying like the most elaborate espresso machines that take up like 16 feet on their counter. Okay, so this or that. What would you rather? Would you rather? It's a almost a mixture of would you rather or this or that a Peloton membership or a CrossFit gym membership?

SPEAKER_04 43:29

Peloton.

SPEAKER_00 43:31

Me too. That's what I said right in my head.

SPEAKER_04 43:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:33

Because we get to do it at home where there are people.

SPEAKER_02 43:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:37

And it's easier to cancel a Peloton membership.

SPEAKER_02 43:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 43:41

You just turn off your internet.

SPEAKER_06 43:42

Yeah. Yeah, literally. Exactly.

SPEAKER_00 43:45

That's actually very interesting, though, because people do get it. Like that was something we didn't really touch on in the previous segment, which was joining a gym is one of those things where it becomes a hobby, right? And then you never go, or you go like Sadie does, so she can clean and jerk. Do I have a rim shot sound?

SPEAKER_04 44:03

Oh god, a rim shot?

SPEAKER_00 44:05

Okay, no, a rim shot. Oh my god, why does your brain no, why did your brain go to Well, look where our brains have been. No, but why did your brain go to um Ow, that is really loud. This one. That's called a rim shot, not what you were thinking, you dirty-minded. Okay. The next one. Guitar you swore you would learn, or a piano keyboard collecting dust.

SPEAKER_05 44:38

Guitar.

SPEAKER_00 44:39

I pick piano.

SPEAKER_05 44:40

Oh.

SPEAKER_00 44:41

And I actually had a conversation. I wanted to learn piano.

SPEAKER_05 44:44

I want to learn guitar.

SPEAKER_00 44:45

But that was another hobby that like I wanted to learn sign language. So my FYP on TikTok was full of people who were doing sign language. I think all I can sign right now is my name and um where the office is. I can't do shit. That's an office. It is. That's how you say office. I was gonna buy a keyboard. Uh-huh. And here's the reason why. I was gonna buy a keyboard because I studied music in high school. Like I took music classes all five years of high school. Uh-huh. And well, I now I I know how to read music. Do you? I do. I play I studied music for five years in high school. I played the trumpet, but I and I played the guitar.

SPEAKER_04 45:28

Anything I did in high school, whether I studied it for five years or not, I don't have a clue of what it is.

SPEAKER_00 45:32

That's probably the heche that did it to you that make you forget. But I know once you learn how to read music, you can always read music.

SPEAKER_04 45:39

It's like riding a bike.

SPEAKER_00 45:40

Exactly.

unknown 45:41

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 45:42

Um, but I wanted to learn how to play the keyboard.

SPEAKER_05 45:45

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_00 45:45

So that if I ever just because I started watching these videos of these random people going up to a random piano and starting to play piano. And everybody loved it. I wanted to be the guy that just goes up and starts playing.

SPEAKER_04 45:57

I love those.

SPEAKER_00 45:58

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 45:58

Yeah. They're all over like they're all over my Instagram. Must have liked one.

SPEAKER_00 46:02

Yep. Here's uh here's some ones with um outdoorsy stuff.

SPEAKER_02 46:06

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:07

All right. So this or that. A full hiking setup or kayak. So Joe, that's Joe's hobby, by the way. She uses Yeah, she does, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:18

She's a kayaker.

SPEAKER_04 46:19

Uh oh.

SPEAKER_00 46:26

Oh, really? I'm I'm full hiking setup.

SPEAKER_04 46:27

Yeah, I changed my mind the last minute.

SPEAKER_00 46:29

But see, I won't hike, but you can it's transferable. The outfits are transferable. Because that involves using your knees.

SPEAKER_05 46:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 46:38

And I don't have any of those anymore. I'm 79 years old, Sadie. Alright. But uh but you can the full hiking thing?

SPEAKER_04 46:45

Uh-huh. That's another thing that people Would you have like space food on you in case you got lost? No.

SPEAKER_00 46:53

It would be the shoes, the the long pants under the shorts thing, the tight pants under the shorts. The spandex under the shorts.

SPEAKER_04 47:00

That's what hikers wear.

SPEAKER_00 47:01

Yeah, with the knapsack, or as Liam used to call it, a nap snack. Well, that's with the water thing, the water hose coming out of it.

SPEAKER_04 47:09

Meanwhile, mine would be full of you should add some space food to that, just so you can have little like in case you then the space blanket in case you're stranded on the side of a mountain. Yes.

SPEAKER_00 47:18

Yes. Remember that do you oh you don't remember.

SPEAKER_04 47:22

I don't remember nothing.

SPEAKER_00 47:23

Masturbating on the side of a mountain. Oh, right. Why are we on the side of a mountain? All right. Um, okay, here's one. Here's one that this is a hobby that some people pick up either or. Okay, so this or that. A metal detector or bird watching benevolent.

SPEAKER_04 47:38

Metal detector. We bought one. We have one. We haven't used it. We bought it for we bought it for Smith. For uh we bought we bought it for Smith. Oh, sure. Um, because we live by the beach and we bought it for him for Christmas. Spent some like a couple hundred bucks on it, like not a cheap little kid one. So we're we've yet to try it, but he's so excited about it. Kind I am too. Imagine it, imagine if he gets like a$10,000 ring.

SPEAKER_00 48:04

What would I do happen?

SPEAKER_04 48:06

What would I do with it?

SPEAKER_00 48:07

You would take it to the police and do what you're legally allowed, supposed to do, which is take it back to the police, and if nobody claims it after 30 days, you get it. And what if someone in the police just a chance you gotta take, lady? So no bird watching. I was I was I was bird watching just because binoculars can be used for other things. Not those things.

SPEAKER_04 48:29

What the fuck are you talking about?

SPEAKER_00 48:30

Binoculars.

SPEAKER_04 48:32

That's a stupid word, eh? It is binoculars.

SPEAKER_00 48:36

It's okay. Here's one that's a bit innocuous. Yeti cooler or camping cookware still in the box. Okay, so would you rather invest in a yeti cooler? Those things are fucking expensive.

SPEAKER_02 48:47

They're so expensive.

SPEAKER_00 48:49

Or a camping cookware. You were kind of a camper at one point.

SPEAKER_04 48:53

When I was like 19 years old.

SPEAKER_00 48:56

Yeah, so but the yeti cooler can be used around the fire pit.

SPEAKER_04 49:00

Oh, yeah, no, it would be a yeti for sure.

SPEAKER_00 49:01

Okay, so you're willing to get a good idea.

SPEAKER_04 49:02

And could you imagine the status of that?

SPEAKER_00 49:05

Scrolling down the building. You are one of the real housewives of Cobra.

SPEAKER_04 49:09

I should be. That'd be so much fun. I would do that in a second.

SPEAKER_00 49:12

That's not bad. Okay, I so I agree. Yeti cooler, I don't need the camping cookware because I don't camp.

SPEAKER_04 49:18

No, I have no desire. Yeah, I have no desire either.

SPEAKER_00 49:23

Uh okay, here's one that we're we kind of touched on a pottery wheel or a calligraphy kit.

SPEAKER_04 49:31

Oh, calig- I had a calligraphy kit, did you?

SPEAKER_00 49:34

No, but I loved calligraphy.

SPEAKER_04 49:36

I did. I had one when I was younger.

SPEAKER_00 49:38

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 49:39

Uh let me I remember that pen with oh God. I used to do it at Oma's house. That's oh, that's bringing back a crazy memory for me.

SPEAKER_06 49:46

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 49:47

Yeah, shit.

unknown 49:48

Oh no.

SPEAKER_04 49:50

Kind of can't remember it.

SPEAKER_00 49:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 49:51

I need to, I'm gonna be calling my mom after we're done this. All right. I feel like I did that with my Oma.

SPEAKER_00 49:56

So here's something. Would you take up the hobby of uh paint by numbers or an or a coloring book?

SPEAKER_04 50:01

Paint by numbers.

SPEAKER_00 50:02

Me too. Yep. Okay, we're right on the same page here, Sadie. Okay. All right, here we go. Fitness.

SPEAKER_04 50:09

We're not gonna be on the same page here.

SPEAKER_00 50:11

Adjustable dumbbells or treadmill?

SPEAKER_04 50:13

Adjustable dumbbells.

SPEAKER_00 50:14

Me too. Because they're so utilitarian, it's amazing. Uh yoga mat or a spin bike?

SPEAKER_04 50:25

Spin bike.

SPEAKER_00 50:26

Yoga mat. I was gonna say, because you know what it can do?

SPEAKER_04 50:30

Well, I was just on my yoga mat today. You know what else can turn into a pillow?

SPEAKER_00 50:38

Boobs.

SPEAKER_04 50:39

Oh my boobs are so sore right now from that HRT. No, uh the uh box wine. You pull out the bag, you blow it up, it turns into a pillow. No word of lie.

SPEAKER_00 50:53

Okay, can you stop ringing? Can you just be jiggling your ice in front of your microphone, please?

SPEAKER_04 50:57

Sorry. You do know that, right?

SPEAKER_00 51:00

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 51:00

I'm gonna bring one for you.

SPEAKER_00 51:01

You know what? You and Christina No, you and Christina, first and foremost.

SPEAKER_04 51:08

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:08

The wine in a box, no.

SPEAKER_04 51:11

Economical.

SPEAKER_00 51:13

Economical. I'm not gonna. If you're gonna spend money on wine, spend money on wine. Do not buy wine in a box. It is disgusting. I tried what Christina was drinking. She's like, it says Sauvignon Blanc. You like Sauvignon Blancs. I'm like, I do, but I like them in a bottle from a real vineyard, not from Bob's garage. Well, they don't make them in a garage. Well, regardless, it's still wine in a bag inside a box. So you're saying that I take that, I pull the spigot off, and I blow it up and use it. Don't even have to. Is it like an emergency thing?

SPEAKER_04 51:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 51:45

No, thank you.

SPEAKER_04 51:46

I'm thinking about we could like give this to homeless people.

SPEAKER_00 51:49

Seriously? I think we could find a better way to put a pillow under their head.

SPEAKER_04 51:55

But you can like you can use the page.

SPEAKER_00 51:57

You could take it.

SPEAKER_04 51:58

No, listen, you can take the air out of it full. It could go in your pocket.

unknown 52:02

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_04 52:02

You can use it camping.

SPEAKER_00 52:04

You might as well stop while you're behind.

SPEAKER_04 52:06

Well, I've oh god.

SPEAKER_02 52:09

Moving on.

SPEAKER_04 52:14

Wait, what is behind me right now?

SPEAKER_00 52:16

What do you mean? In studio oh wait.

SPEAKER_04 52:18

Studio Volvo.

SPEAKER_00 52:20

What do you what do you look at?

SPEAKER_04 52:22

On that, on that on that dry eraser board. What is up at that?

SPEAKER_00 52:27

Probably Joe's work notes.

SPEAKER_04 52:28

Uh can I show it to you?

SPEAKER_00 52:30

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 52:30

Okay, one sec. Stay tuned, people.

SPEAKER_00 52:33

Sadie's gonna get some random dry erase board on the other side of Studio Volvo 2.

SPEAKER_04 52:38

If this is true, it is oh shoot, it's attached! What?

SPEAKER_00 52:46

What the hell is that?

SPEAKER_04 52:47

Is this?

SPEAKER_00 52:49

Please explain this to me. You're gonna have to take a picture of it.

SPEAKER_04 52:52

Yeah, this is really, really weird.

SPEAKER_00 52:54

Maybe I'll take a video of it. Well, and this will go on to our thing.

SPEAKER_04 52:58

What is this? What is this? Are there dead people?

unknown 53:04

No.

SPEAKER_00 53:05

I think that's Liam probably drew something to do with Star Wars. Can you just Darth?

SPEAKER_04 53:11

Darth Paul?

SPEAKER_00 53:12

Yeah, there you go. Okay. So that's it's it's our 20-year-old, 10-year-old.

SPEAKER_04 53:17

Um, also a penis.

SPEAKER_00 53:19

If he's got a pic if he's got a pencil and a piece of paper, he's drawing a penis.

SPEAKER_04 53:23

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 53:24

Penis and testicle.

SPEAKER_04 53:25

Wow. That is um that's next level. Okay. Take a look at this, kids. Okay, we can move on. I just my eye, my eye caught it. So an artist.

SPEAKER_00 53:40

Clearly not um Liam's or Joe's work notes.

SPEAKER_04 53:44

No, not Joe's work notes.

unknown 53:46

No.

SPEAKER_00 53:46

Okay. All right, closing thoughts before we get into some listener reviews.

SPEAKER_02 53:51

Like I have closing thoughts.

SPEAKER_00 53:53

Well, do you have any thoughts about your you know what? Okay, I'll pose a question before we wrap up. Yeah, I'd prefer a question. Would you give me a new one? Pick a new hobby that you want to pick up.

SPEAKER_04 54:05

Pick a new hobby.

SPEAKER_00 54:06

Pick a new hobby that you think. Would you would you pick up golf or something like that?

SPEAKER_04 54:11

Dance.

unknown 54:13

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 54:13

I'd pick up dance. Like break dance or like crumping.

SPEAKER_00 54:17

Oh, really?

SPEAKER_04 54:18

Yeah, like something something like a little off the wall.

SPEAKER_00 54:20

Do you need me to remind do you need me to remind you how old you are?

SPEAKER_04 54:24

No, I do not.

SPEAKER_00 54:26

Okay. So why uh so you would take dance, you would take dance classes, you'd buy all the clothes, you'd buy the tutu.

SPEAKER_04 54:34

Like the cha-cha-cha.

SPEAKER_00 54:35

Okay.

SPEAKER_04 54:36

I do ballroom. That's what I would do.

SPEAKER_00 54:38

That's your new hobby.

SPEAKER_04 54:39

That's my new hobby.

SPEAKER_00 54:40

All right. When are you gonna do it and who's gonna be your partner?

SPEAKER_04 54:42

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_00 54:43

This is not gonna be your husband.

SPEAKER_04 54:44

Uh it might.

SPEAKER_00 54:45

No, he is not twinkletoes flintstone.

SPEAKER_04 54:48

Have you seen him run?

SPEAKER_00 54:49

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 54:50

He does look like Twinkletoes when he runs.

SPEAKER_00 54:52

He does.

SPEAKER_04 54:53

He does talk and move.

SPEAKER_00 54:54

I don't know if he'll be able to do the whole ballroom dancing thing. He will not be on dancing with the stars anytime.

SPEAKER_04 55:01

I just want to do those faces like these ones.

SPEAKER_00 55:07

Yes.

SPEAKER_04 55:08

Like, ooh, ah, he. That's what I want to do. Like a good acting job.

SPEAKER_00 55:15

Well, you are a world-famous Canadian actor who gets lots of great reviews on our podcast on Apple and Spotify. So here are we got two listener reviews this week. Are you ready?

SPEAKER_02 55:27

Yeah, I'm ready.

SPEAKER_00 55:28

Before we wrap up.

unknown 55:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_00 55:29

This is from Daniel or it could be Danielle.

SPEAKER_04 55:33

What?

SPEAKER_00 55:34

I'm not sure.

SPEAKER_04 55:35

Daniel or Danielle.

SPEAKER_00 55:36

I'm going to say it's Daniel R from Edmonton, Alberta.

SPEAKER_04 55:40

I think Daniel is it ends just with the L.

SPEAKER_00 55:42

Okay. So then it's Daniel R from Edmonton, Alberta. Hey Daniel. I play the show on my commute, and it's gen and it genuinely makes me uh makes the drive feel shorter. The mix of real life observations, ridiculous honesty is perfect. You take normal things we all do and somehow turn them into running jokes that stick in my head for days. It's funny without feeling forced and relatable, without being repetitive. This has become a weekly must listen for me. Thank you, Daniel. That was and he gave us five stars. Thank you, Daniel. We're on a roll for five stars, so we have yet to get a bad review, actually. And I don't know if I would read a bad review on the air anyway. But here we go. Melissa Kay. Five stars from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Oh fuck, here we go. Sadie might be the funniest podcast co-host I've heard in a long time. She has that perfect mix of quick reactions and saying exactly what the audience is thinking. The chemistry between Sadie and Scott makes the show feel natural and unscripted in the best way. It honestly feels like sitting at a table with two friends, having a conversation you don't want to leave.

SPEAKER_04 57:03

Melissa, is that her name?

SPEAKER_00 57:05

Melissa Kay from Halifax.

SPEAKER_04 57:06

Yes, Melissa Kay.

SPEAKER_00 57:08

That's the second great one you've gotten from the Maritimes. So apparently, women in the Maritimes love listening to the same.

SPEAKER_03 57:14

I'm an East Coaster.

SPEAKER_00 57:15

Oh yay.

SPEAKER_03 57:16

Oh yay.

SPEAKER_00 57:17

Oh no, that was more like Minnesota.

SPEAKER_04 57:21

Minnesota.

SPEAKER_00 57:22

Oh yeah, bye. Bye. You gotta say boy.

SPEAKER_04 57:24

Boy.

SPEAKER_00 57:25

Boy. Well, that wraps it up.

SPEAKER_03 57:28

I don't know where that just went, but okay.

SPEAKER_00 57:31

That wraps it up for this week's episode. Thank you so much for listening to this week's episode of Start Talking with Sadie and Scott. We hope you enjoyed it listening to it as much as we did bringing it to you. Don't forget to check us out on our socials at Facebook, Instagram, and we have a TikTok now. Leave us a message anywhere, and I, because Sadie doesn't do the TikTok, I will respond. And we'll read it on the show if you have a great review for us. Or give us a shitty review. It'll probably be against me anyway. So apparently every woman in the fucking Maritimes is hot for Sadie's.com. Yeah. You know, don't say anything. I got a Gmail. Okay. Like What do you mean?

SPEAKER_04 58:19

I have a Gmail.

SPEAKER_00 58:20

Exactly. I didn't want to do the whole website spending thing through GoDaddy to use that.

SPEAKER_04 58:26

GoDaddy. That's a really weird all black.

SPEAKER_00 58:32

What's a really oh the Go Daddy, yeah. Alright. Alright.

SPEAKER_02 58:37

Yeah, Daddy.

SPEAKER_00 58:40

Do you want to describe? Hold on. What was her name? Melissa Kay?

SPEAKER_02 58:44

Melissa K.

SPEAKER_00 58:46

Do you want to do you wanna did you listen to the episode where you described to the other listener what you were wearing?

SPEAKER_04 58:54

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 58:54

Did you listen to what I put in in the background?

SPEAKER_04 58:57

No.

SPEAKER_00 58:58

Then you didn't listen to the other.

SPEAKER_04 58:59

I did.

SPEAKER_03 58:59

I just can't remember. I told you. I can't remember things.

SPEAKER_00 59:02

Alright, do you wanna do you wanna as we're signing off, do you wanna tell Melissa Kay, who's quite hot for you?

SPEAKER_04 59:08

Isn't this what I was wearing last time?

SPEAKER_00 59:10

No.

SPEAKER_04 59:11

Oh, okay. Are you ready, Melissa?

SPEAKER_00 59:15

You get into your all black voice. So I'm gonna bring up the music and then we'll sign off.

SPEAKER_02 59:23

Okay. Ready? I'm gonna start down at my toes.

SPEAKER_04 59:30

I'm wearing don't laugh! I'm trying to be serious, eh hole. Okay, ready?

SPEAKER_02 59:42

Um, hey Melissa.

SPEAKER_04 59:46

Sadie here from not the East Coast. I'm wearing really black gap socks.

SPEAKER_02 59:56

I'm gonna slide up to my legs.

SPEAKER_04 59:58

I got some I got some tie-dye lulus on. They're high-waisted.

SPEAKER_00 1:00:09

Are they dirty?

SPEAKER_04 1:00:10

They're dirty. The backs of the map splashes from the outside.

SPEAKER_03 1:00:22

I'm loving one of them. Thanks for shouting down there, girl. You're dying. Oh dear God.