The Hobby Perverts The Hobby Perverts

I let this one ferment a while... and now it's funky. Dag's mic sounds like shit, but Melanie (@fruitcontent) is a great time. Melanie shares with us about finding cooking for herself, balancing creative work and making a living, as well as sharing her cooking through Rabbit Year Kitchen (sign up for the recipes and the adorable zine).
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The Adams catch up on racing, running and the joys of a nice freshwater fish tank. Victoria Scott (@mikurubaeahina; @victoriascott.bsky.social; vantimevictoria.com) joins us to talk about doing freelance work in car journalism and how you can make your hobbies a career. Using a lifelong passion for photography to document life, tell stories and find yourself in a world that can feel desolate. Read Victoria's excellent multi-part series on The Drive documenting her adventure traveling America in a 1995 Japanese Domestic Market Toyota Hiace. Check out her photobooks for sale on her site here. Photograph of Victoria by Forest Casey (@forestcasey). We mourn the loss of Adam's dear friend Ben, who we recently lost. Please keep his wife in your thoughts. Make any memorial donations in Ben's name to National Alliance on Mental Illness Durham. Experiencing a crisis? Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255). We love you. Hayden wants you to join Hobby Discord to hangout with him and the other members of Twitter hobbyist DMs and Discord servers in our ranks. Join the Discord server here.

The Uncle's Summer rolls on as the Adams meditate on hobbyists who get too deep and let hobbies derail their lives and catch up on the past few weeks. This time Dag (@brother_dag) disappears once again as Adam (@damiataman) catches up with Jake Thiewes (@jthiewes;@OutMotorsports) about making the queer car community he wanted to see, getting into car media and racing cars in a spec series.Hayden wants you to join Hobby Discord to hangout with him and the other members of Twitter hobbyist DMs and Discord servers in our ranks. Join the Discord server here.

Welcome to Hot Uncle Summer. The Adams are riding high and in a good mood as warm weather hits. We talk getting back into an exercise habit, Adam (@damiataman) becoming a running guy and taking Styrofoam coolers to the Indy 500. Adam disappears once again as Dag (@brother_dag) catches up with Chris (@kwandarykitten; @theskyhookpod; @CHGO_Sky) about making it on Jeopardy, Chicago area bowling alleys, his Chicago media league softball nemeses The Reader and coaching roller derby.
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The Adams catch up on the past few weeks and mourn the loss of Adam's (@damiataman) bowling alley. Adam disappears with a mysterious illness as Dag (@brother_dag) chats with Charles (@charlesraustin; @E1podcast) about not being so precious with your creative outputs, investing time in multiple creative avenues and how Adam missed his chance to add to his legend with a podcast flu game.
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We're joined by the wonderful Maggie Hendricks (@maggiehendricks) to catch up on her busy weekend at the NCAA Women's Final Four and how quilting + sewing help her recuperate. We discuss finding community, how to help yourself get started in any hobby and finding your own hobby auntie or uncle.
The Adams talk about taking your hobby too seriously and what to do when you're not letting yourself enjoy what you love anymore.
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