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The Bert Show

Best of The Year: Should TV Count As A Hobby?

The Bert Show

The Bert Show

Entertainment News, Society & Culture, Comedy, News

4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Some people knit, some people play sports, some people watch TV?! Should watching your favorite show count as a hobby? What do you think?

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0:00.0

The First Show

0:01.4

We have argued with Chris, and I were the most vocal about this.

0:04.8

Like watching TV is not a hobby.

0:06.8

It's just a checkout.

0:08.3

It's a waste of time.

0:09.2

I can't exactly put my finger on why I feel that way, but it just does not feel like a hobby.

0:13.7

It doesn't feel like you're being creative or accomplishing anything.

0:17.8

There's no goal.

0:19.0

You're just like sitting there watching TV. It doesn't

0:21.1

feel hobbyish. Well, a hobby to me doesn't necessarily, and maybe we have definitions messed up,

0:25.0

doesn't mean that there necessarily has to be a goal. That's why I think that I haven't gotten a hobby

0:30.3

dysfunctionally is that I'm so goal oriented that everything has to have a purpose. Whereas with a hobby, I think it's, I'm with you, like it's, there's gotta be something going on.

0:39.9

I'm creative, I'm engaging with my mind.

0:42.5

I'm allowed to check out, but I could be also describing TV.

0:47.0

You were 100% describing TV.

0:48.8

And my thing is, if reading a book is a hobby,

0:51.8

if going to the movies, watching cinema, appreciating cinema is a hobby, why can't television be a hobby?

0:58.2

Would we consider reading a book or reading a hobby?

1:00.8

I guess we would.

1:02.0

Yes, absolutely.

1:03.1

If someone asks me what I like to do, I would say reading.

1:05.8

And that's a hobby is an activity done regularly in one's leisure time for pleasure. But to hit your points

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