What’s Wrong With Having a Hobby?

After mulling over the problem of boredom in the last Trip episode, the ACFM gang return with a solution: hobbies.

Nadia, Jem and Keir wonder why having a hobby is so often framed as uncool, why hobbies tend to mutate into jobs, which hobbies are appropriate for commoners, and how men and women approach their hobbies differently.

Their weird-left spin on private pastimes includes ideas from Engels and Gary Cross, and music from Television Personalities and Shonen Knife.

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Music: The Who – Pinball Wizard / Television Personalities – Part Time Punks / The Fall – I’m into C.B. / Otis Redding – Sitting on the Dock of the Bay / Shonen Knife – Insect Collector / Margie Rayburn – Bobby Is My Hobby / De_Essentialz – Bobby Is My Hobby (feat. Blou’Montago & Lacah)

Books: Gary Cross – Consumed Nostalgia: Memory in the Age of Fast Capitalism / Cory Doctorow – Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Edited by Matt Huxley.