Hobbies

hey good evening happy wednesday um welcome back to another podcast of daily mind i'm your host managing out early enough to sneak in an episode i know last week i said that um it's gonna be kind of light this week with episodes it all depends on my work schedule but luckily for me i was able to get back in enough time before i hit midnight to where i can record a show today and basically have it set for today so just glad to be back on the air even though i was just down for maybe one day so far it just seems like an eternity and this is one of those things i like that i look forward to on a day-to-day basis coming home seeing my wife having dinner and of course jumping right into the podcast excuse me so i'm gonna get right into it today i'm gonna talk about hobbies yeah i know it's not exactly a cutthroat controversial episode about hobbies right you know i thought about it especially um with myself um i thought about hobbies that i take up and hobbies that i've had or still do since i was younger um one of my hobbies right you know so i'll get right into it was model railroading i like to collect model trains train sets um i've been doing it since i was a kid it seemed to be somewhat woven into my dna my great-grandfather was big on model railroading i never had a chance to meet him but um based on some of the stories i've heard of him um he was definitely a model railroader and i seem to take up a lot from him not just on model railroading but i guess also personality too it's kind of odd especially if somebody i haven't met um but uh yeah model railroading is definitely one to this day i'm not too heavy into it but i'm still into it um and video games like two of my biggest hobbies growing up was video games and uh model railroading was two of the biggest video games i'm gonna tell you right now that's something that's never gonna go anywhere it's not gonna go away video games i will play it until i have carpal tunnel i will play video games i can't play anymore i will always play video games always been a thing i think one of the first video games i was exposed to um was mario brothers i had been probably three years old being exposed to this uh but nes the original super mario that is and been hooked ever since i know it's uh it's amazing but um i'm gonna just get right into hobbies so we all have a hobby something to keep our minds engaged keep us entertained keep us going just make us us right um some hobbies out there people have that are pretty um what's the word i'm looking for common or normal or what is really normal right and there's some hobbies that's how people just have that are just a little different than what you and i are probably used to i don't know um collecting balls of aluminum foil or some shit something super odd or collecting dead bugs anything could be a hobby maybe it keeps you entertained right so i'm gonna look up the the uh dictionary term for a hobby right what makes a hobby right and you know it'll start to make a little bit more sense let's see here i'm getting notifications like crazy i don't even know why all right so hobby right what is a hobby a hobby is as it's defined here as an activity doing regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure for example her hobbies are reading and gardening right like i mean gardening is great i mean it definitely does pass the time and if you're a homebody right and you have time to cater to a garden uh garden because gardens are somewhat labor intensive and time uh consuming right if you know using your time very well you ain't really working or you're tired and you got all this time in the world during the day then yeah gardening would be a great hobby um maybe even coupon collecting i don't know anything could be a hobby right um so what i'm gonna do right i'm gonna get into i'm gonna do some research as i go along with this show and um yeah and i'm gonna look up some of the craziest hobbies or some of the most common hobbies or unusual hobbies um let's see most common hobbies because i'm interested in this because you know you know everybody has a hobby in some way shape or form right um let's see so it says here i'm trying to look up a list um of course it was a hobby a lot of hobbies too believe it or not people found a lot of shit to do during the pandemic which is very interesting in fact i'm going to actually get into that because i think that would be the catalyst for some of the hobbies out there i could explain or go over because let's be real during the pandemic um you couldn't really go outside you barely go to work so a lot of people found something new to do they picked up a craft a hobby if you will something to help pass the time while they couldn't work right and it's not a bad thing because believe it or not and i don't mind you know you get the creative juices flowing and that's what happened during the pandemic so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna read off a list to keep this uh topic going and it's gonna make any it's gonna make some sense right now this list is on the website let me see if i can now this was written actually um or the story was updated on august 22nd just last year okay but this is not i'm gonna look a little bit beyond the coronavirus pandemic i'm just gonna look in general because some of these hobbies people probably have already been doing even before the pandemic right um so i'm just gonna read it real quick it says staying home is more necessary than ever right now in the light of coronavirus pandemic in some states it's even required by law all right we're gonna skip all that because that really just pertains to lockdowns right um so what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna start backwards right um starting with the 15th one right so what about this is what they um this is not a pandemic but we're gonna look past the pandemic right because these are things that you can start regardless even right now um learning an instrument number 15 that's a fantastic thing to do i mean um if you're just kind of just not really do anything maybe you can learn how to play the tambourine play a guitar a piano or something right it was one of those things that also popped up during the pandemic that people went and learned now whether or not these people are still pursuing it even after the lockdowns are done who knows but it was one of those things that was picked up at the time was learning an instrument and then number 14 learning a language that's a good time passer and i think now in this day and age where um we're speaking more than just english right in this country learning a language regardless i think it's a fantastic hobby i mean they got websites they got dolingo they got babble they got all these apps where you can sit here take a few minutes of your day and actually you know try to learn a language i will say though it's harder to learn a language when you're an adult than when you're a kid when you're a kid your mind is empty you can sponge up everything so quickly it's just way more um difficult to do as an adult right that's just what it is and then um let's see here uh writing uh i guess people during the pandemic also took up writing now writing is a good hobby it always has been right maybe some of the best book writers out there was probably just born one day and just like you know i'm just gonna write something and i mean there's nothing else going on up there in the old noodle i'm just gonna sit here and just write a book or a poem or a limerick or something where it became something bigger than what they thought so writing was definitely one of those things um it says here it doesn't matter if you're journaling blogging about what you ate today blah blah blah or writing the next chart topping novel writing not only keeps your brain busy but also boosts your creativity now me i read a journal i try to write a journal every day i've been slipping lately with this journal i've been writing it for about roughly shit no shit eight years i've been writing a journal it doesn't really get my creative juices flowing just kind of just puts my day on paper something i can look back on i guess right and then um number 12 they got on this list audiobooks and podcasts of course of course because what else are you gonna do you're on a computer all day you might as well talk to people get your voice out there right now me i started this podcast back in october this was already after the pandemic and the lockdowns were already set and done but a lot of people sat here read audiobooks and just created a podcast just something where they can somehow communicate with the world out there right everybody was told to shut her inside don't go outside and this was just a way to get your voice out there for some it says here actually let's see it says while i love sitting down and reading a book i also love listening to audiobooks and podcasts when i'm doing things that require my hands or feet like cleaning the house walking outside or cooking dinner but i use audible blah blah and as for podcasts we listen by podcast app or spotify there are ones for every person every interest it's just one of those things past the time right again during a pandemic too what were you really doing you know you're either watching tv listening to the radio cleaning up i mean you people were just they weren't doing much anything out there so listening to a podcast or audio book or shit even creating a podcast hell i wish i created a podcast this podcast during the pandemic if i would have done that who knows where this thing would be right now honestly right that's something i can't travel back in time and fix um let's see so it says here meditation number 11 was meditation on the list i think meditation in any day any way shape or form is a fantastic thing even if you can pull off to the side on your break meditation absolutely i need to get into meditation a lot more i need to because there's been days been days and every day with this job i mean it's just oh it's a stress it's a stress i can use the additional meditation right but for some people it was a mental adjustment during a pandemic because um a lot of people can't fathom what was really going on and it was mentally damaging to some people to so to help stay afloat some people have to meditate right and even though as a hobby i think it's a great hobby a little doesn't seem very hobby-ish but you know it's a thing that you can take joy and leisure to that you can do every day right so that's why it qualifies as a hobby of sorts uh video games shit that might just be number one is actually number 10 on this list because video games like i said it's my number one hobby is video games i have other hobbies too like again photography is a big big one with me too as well my work lately has been a little light but i do i do photography for sure uh but video games absolutely especially again during the pandemic yeah you can go outside right so online gaming just playing video games with a family or just random ass people online was just the way to go right and even now more people have picked up video games as a hobby than ever before i believe and you know it used to be like oh they're video games for kids that's why more adults play video games as a hobby or just something to pass the time than ever before right so i mean we can't just sit here and be like video games is a fag no that's just way beyond a fag man in fact the video game industry makes more money than the movie industry don't believe me look it up all right so hey number nine they had on this list gardening gardening again i just mentioned gardening is a very good time passer again and it's very serene and it's mentally stabilizing for some people out there gardening is very quiet meticulous it is labor intensive to a point depending on how big you garden or what your goal is for your garden but it's a great hobby you know you get a nice little green thumb going up there and you know you learn a lot about botany too you know a lot about plants and all these other things that go along with you know gardening is not just making it look pretty it's a science to it and a lot of people take pleasure and joy in doing it and that's what makes it a hobby right there's gardening and um yeah and another one here has eight baking now it's funny because i don't use baking it's not a hobby to me but between me and my wife i am the baker right i typically like the baking with the cakes and cupcakes and stuff like that i'm the baker um i don't know i don't really pick that up or thought of it to be a hobby because i mean how often am i really going to bake right i would have to be baking at least once a week to for me to classify as a hobby and i bake far in between okay so i don't think that's a hobby for me but there are people out there that bake as a hobby right and make money off of it right so i mean hey if you do it fantastic right fantastic and you know with social media you can promote this stuff and make it pretty big um they had seven here yoga yoga is a fantastic it's a holistic somewhat holistic hobby i think for health benefit like meditation yoga goes hand in hand yoga can be a great uh hobby in fact it's painful at first i heard from a few uh a few testimonies but it's a great little hobby to do in between in fact it says here right now again it says it might be a little biased but i'm a yoga teacher this is the person that wrote the story right so i'm talking from her talking as her i'm a yoga teacher after all but i feel infinitely better if i make it to the mat every day not only is it healthy to get some physical movement every day but yoga can also help release stress and share your inner zen especially like again during that time when she wrote this it was after the pandemic so these things that she kind of got into and it did set your mental pretty straight especially at that crazy time uh number six it says do-it-yourself projects always a fantastic hobby right they got a shitload of videos of do-it-yourself projects that um in tiktoks that you can sit there and pick up and you know learn and do on your own the past time do-it-yourself projects was a great time pass even past the pandemic and whatnot even now you want to do yourself project you have a home you're a homeowner you can sit there and make a fucking cabinet um make furniture or whatever right build something right get your creative juices flowing you can do all that that's a perfect do-it-yourself perfect hobby man and you do it right you get it out there you can make money off of it listen some hobbies you can make money off of right like who the hell ever thought that you can make money playing video games right people back in the day would tell you man you're just burning out your brain playing that nintendo you ain't gonna amount to nothing there are streamers out there who turned that hobby into multi-million dollar fucking entities you don't believe me look up some of these streamers who play cod all day they make it hundreds if not thousands of dollars hell millions just playing video games right now you'd be surprised sorry mom all right and board games number five they have board games on here now board games in fact after i'm done with this episode me and my wife we're about to go into a round of trouble we play trouble or at least try to every single night that is a fantastic hobby growing up i was only supposed to monopoly connect four blah blah i never really played these games a lot but my wife since i met her we play board games all the fucking time we got a little board game area over there we have our troubles sorry um shoots and ladders dominoes you name it we all these games that we could play besides video games the past time board games is a fantastic hobby again also back during the pandemic that was just one of those where you play with your immediate family at home or whoever you were living with because you couldn't go anywhere else you couldn't go visit other family to play so board games was just it and it kept everybody sane in some way kept everybody social right and then let's see here arts and crafts absolutely my wife in fact about a year or two ago picked up crocheting as a hobby and all she did she really just got into it she didn't do very much research she watched a few videos though and she crochets like a mother like she crochets hats sweaters scarves probably even cardigans now and oh excuse me and she does this as a hobby now of course she never sold any of her work maybe someday but to her it's just something to pass the time to get her to do something and again it's one of those hobbies that picked up um back back when they're in a pandemic and then working out yes working out is a fantastic hobby it has many many many many benefits to working out um going to the gym whether it don't have to go to the gym you just go for a jog around the block or something like that or if you have some workout equipment or something at home a couple of little light weights you can do that too and there's health benefits to it right you lose weight um get mentally right um it says here can't get to the gym bring the gym to you again remember during the pandemic you couldn't go to the gym so you had to make a gym and that's where that really just that renaissance really came about um it says can't get to the gym bring the gym to you that's what plenty of people are doing with the help of at home workout essentials like dumbbells resistant bands and pilates rings listen you work out at home you don't need a lot of equipment you need a pair essentials a couple of dumbbells a kettlebell some um like something to scratch on a mat like you don't really need to go to the gym man you can do simple calisthenics at home perfect hobby right perfect hobby and then reading and number one they have here watching tv and movies reading yeah okay so reading i'm gonna say it's a lost art and why i say this is because a lot of people there are people that read books that's why barnes novels and shit still exist but a lot of people don't read books they don't read as much as they used to or they go to audiobooks right audiobooks that works too but a lot of people aren't reading as much but back especially during the pandemic more people picked up books than any time ever before really um before everything really started going digital people were reading they passed the time and i said to myself i was a 20 book pledge this year where i read at least 20 books i picked up this one book that was free about world war ii and i'm just i haven't cracked it open yet but in fact i'm gonna take it with me tomorrow and i'm gonna read it but reading is definitely one of those things and then watching tv was number one on that list because watching tv okay so watching tv is not a hobby but if you go back to the pandemic yeah that's what can you fucking do you can't go anywhere you can't go to the movies so you consume superless amounts of streaming shows and movies like netflix and on hulu and stuff like that now i don't think um somebody will tell me or ask me like hey what's one of your hobbies what do you like to do i don't like to stay home watch tv that shit just sounds lazy now i don't even sound like a hobby anymore at that point it sounds like straight lazy right but those are hobbies that you can do on a day-to-day right you don't take the pandemic or nothing like that and i think as you get older i think people take up hobbies more as they get older you know i mean they find less and less to do in some cases and they're just like oh man you know i gotta find something to do right or if you're retired right you already retired you worked all your life you're retired and you're just like what the fuck am I gonna do I don't want to be a Walmart greeter or I don't want to just sit around do nothing I want to do something right that's when you pick up a hobby you pick up a book or you go somewhere maybe a road trip road trips can be hobbies too like that's one of my hobbies I guess see I'm learning about myself one of my hobbies is taking road trips absolutely there's nothing more therapeutic than a road trip like therapy on wheels as I call it right absolutely so I'm gonna look up some odd hobbies too right because where you got some odd you know some hobbies that you know just sounds normal right I guess what's normal you have some very odd hobbies right I mean like I said it's whatever people take pleasure in doing so what may be odd to me may be normal to that person right so I'm gonna look up some of the most uncommon or odd hobbies because I think that's uh interesting oh god what the fuck is this the most unusual okay I gotta get on this side I think I found something that's oh I really hope this is like oh my god okay there's 10 I'm gonna read real quick okay I got nine minutes I think I can bust this down to nine fucking minutes all right so there's a website here called kaplaninternational.com and it basically has fun facts for unusual hobbies all right I hope you get a nice little laugh at this because there was a couple I've seen just rolling I'm already like ready to just laugh um okay so they have here number 10 that's an odd hobby right now of course there's many other websites that have these odd hobbies this is one of the first ones I came across I don't know if you guys ever heard of toy voyaging um toy voyaging right number 10 do you have a toy that needs a vacation some people create a travel login profile for their traveling toy you can also include life missions for your toy where you tell potential host what your toy wants to do while visiting host and host and owners update their travel login pictures what the fuck is toy voyaging like okay no yeah you see what I mean okay I'm gonna take my toys on vacation I'm ungrown ass and what fucking toys am I gonna do I have or what toys am I actually gonna bring on vacation remember uh to me no most others uh number nine competitive duck herding yes competitive duck herding is a hobby you learn to herd duck like you would sheep apparently it has become popular for corporate days out at least according to this article I never fucking heard of anything so ridiculous I'm sorry I never heard of that um competitive duck herding yeah so much for getting your ducks in a row all right number eight element collecting all right it says here you collect elements from the periodic table people do this in different ways in different periods heavy element poisonous radioactive ones are not recommended to collect yeah because I'm sure I'm gonna find fucking uranium on the damn ground somewhere I'm gonna just put that in my collection with no problem whatsoever enriched uranium right listen if you're gonna collect the elements just know you're not gonna get all 101 fucking elements you're not gonna get them all especially uranium and if you do have uranium you're probably going to jail all right so hey suing somebody has made suing into a natural hobby I swear to god it says here number seven is suing okay it says here okay this belongs more in the comedy category but it seems there was at least one person who made suing into an actual hobby despite being incarcerated at a federal prison in Kentucky Jonathan Lee Riches has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records he was named as the person who has filed the most lawsuits ever so what did he do next he filed a lawsuit against the folks at Guinness he filed a lawsuit against the New England Patriots Bill Belichick uh he filed a lawsuit against George W. Bush Somali pirates Britney Spears and Martha Stewart he also filed a lawsuit against Plato Nostradamus James Hoffman who's been missing since fucking forever and various Buddhist monks okay this is a man that just takes pleasure in um suing everybody like I don't know he um sues Mary McCheese or sue Roger Rabbit or sue Homer Simpson or just sue his mother or sue himself I think somebody like that just has some really serious problems that's probably the most odd fucking hobby ever and it should be definitely illegal um number six I got about six minutes geo coaching so geo coaching it says here is a free real world treasure hunting hobby using technology there are hidden containers called geo caches oh geo caching yeah geo caches what items inside are located using a smartphone or GPS yes this hobby good for exploring the world and sharing experience with other members if you're interested in getting started go to geo caching website uh hidden containers yeah I don't know that sounds kind of weird stone skipping is number five I mean who doesn't like to throw a stone across a pond once in the blue on their board I don't see a hobby in doing this but apparently it's a hobby it says here yes it is exactly that you take a nice little oval stone and you try to make it bounce on board as many times as possible there's a record for this by the way the current record holder managed 51 bounce throw so that shit went and bounced 51 bounces before it just stops getting across the board that's that's extreme um number four extreme ironing I haven't said that again extreme ironing yes it's a competitive sport known as EI extreme ironing consists of ironing clothing in different usually extreme situations like wild rock climbing surfing or kayaking who the fuck is ironing clothes there and surfing how is that even possible electricity water don't mix kayaking while ironing sometimes I think we're not evolving people I think we're devolving that's that's listen man you try ironing on a subway in New York it's possible um number three news reading um not gonna get into that one and then there's two more number two is beetle fighting yeah beetle fighting not cock fighting not bum fighting beetle fighting it says here choose different types of beetles to fight against each other beetle fighting enthusiasts sometimes breed different species of beetle for fighting you can also find videos about this online but while some might find interesting others think might be a big roast I'm pretty sure some of those animal rights activists are gonna think the other way too beetle fighting the fuck is this pokemon if you want a beetle fighting just play pokemon go or something beetle fighting I mean look it can be a lot worse it could be fucking dog fighting that's a lot worse than beetle fighting I mean beetles I really care about beetles but yeah dogs fighting yeah people don't care about that shit and then last one was tree shaping which I think is not an odd hobby I think that's actually pretty cool tree shaping because there are some people that can professionally shape a tree in like any shape they want whether it be a car or the shape of a tree or the shape of a boat or a book or I don't think that's odd I think that's a really interesting hobby tree shaping right if you got the land you got the trees you got the equipment I don't see why not right so so listen if you have a hobby out there don't be ashamed of it again what is normal to you may seem odd to others but that's just virtually everything in life that's just how we operate right nothing is normal there's no such thing as normal right because you know what you think is normal is odd to someone else you may not think so because you look at it as normal because it's what you normally do but sometimes you can't be normal sometimes you just think outside the box right be different sometimes don't be normal all right so hey so I'm gonna wrap this episode up I'm just glad I had the opportunity to make a quick episode real quick um to get the show going because again the schedule this week is a little bit late last night got that pretty late so I didn't really get a chance to do an episode at all I just kind of just went to bed but um I'm just glad I was able to get an episode in tonight at least while I got home a little bit early and keeping up with giving you guys some sort of entertainment and keeping my show going um I do appreciate you guys taking the time listening to all these podcast episodes I'm trying to get them better trying to get more uh not hobbies but um more episodes more topics again I can also use your help the daily mind podcast at gmail.com again the daily mind podcast at gmail.com join your suggestions I might talk about it just send me whatever you think um should be discussed all right so hey enjoy your rainy evening wherever you are and um tomorrow I will do my very best depending on what time to sneak another episode in for this week if 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