Speaker 1: Is It Just Me? Podcast by a couple of Mitches.
Speaker 2: All right, we've been edging you for weeks, teasing you
Speaker 2: on socials after the announcement that Mitch and I are
Speaker 2: both I'm a hunt for a new hobby for whatever reason.
Speaker 2: I'm looking for a new hobby because I've got a
Speaker 2: lot of time on my hands now that I'm a
Speaker 2: single boy. Mitch is looking for another hobby. Why what
Speaker 2: was your hobby hunt reason?
Speaker 3: Mitch, Well, it was kind of a weird coincidence because
Speaker 3: you told me that you wanted to look for more hobbies,
Speaker 3: and a couple of weeks prior, my therapist had said
Speaker 3: to me, listen, you've turned your hobby of making videos, podcasting,
Speaker 3: blah blah blah. You've turned that into your actual job,
Speaker 3: which means you need new hobbies because they're not your
Speaker 3: hobbies anymore.
Speaker 4: That's your work.
Speaker 3: And so I was gonna do this anyway by myself,
Speaker 3: like a thing on Instagram where I try different hobbies,
Speaker 3: and then by coincidence, it turned out you were in
Speaker 3: the mood to do the same thing. So we're like,
Speaker 3: fuck it, let's make it a thing on the podcast
Speaker 3: hobby Hunt.
Speaker 5: Correct, And that is where ladies and gentlemen. This was
Speaker 5: born Holy Hart.
Speaker 2: Yes, welcome to hobby Heart everybody, the inaugural Hobbyhart. That
Speaker 2: is the first time I've heard that, and it sounds
Speaker 2: like a gay children's boy.
Speaker 3: I did add a little echo we choire effect to
Speaker 3: that opener just to make it sound a bit more beautiful.
Speaker 4: God, you can really hear your voice, Mitch above everyone else's.
Speaker 4: You sound lovely.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well I'm classically trained, so you can hear it. Come
Speaker 2: out there.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Hobby Hunt, Oh my god. This is the first of
Speaker 2: our few hobbies that we're trying out. And Mitch took
Speaker 2: the lead this time around, and you led the first
Speaker 2: hobby Hunt.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So this actually wasn't something new for me, which was
Speaker 3: the whole idea behind hobby Hunt. But I am going
Speaker 3: to be doing things in the next few weeks during
Speaker 3: hobby Hunt where it's going to be out of my
Speaker 3: comfort zone because it's a smack bang in my comfort zone.
Speaker 3: I dragged you and Jenna along to Scout Polarites and Yoga.
Speaker 3: That's the studio I go to for bar classes, and
Speaker 3: I wanted you to see what all the fuss is
Speaker 3: about because I do bang on about it a bit
Speaker 3: being like, oh, I love bar class, you know, I
Speaker 3: can't get enough. And it was actually kind of nice
Speaker 3: having you guys there. It felt like you were stepping
Speaker 3: into my world.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I completely agree. And the instructor that we had
Speaker 2: was your normal instructor that teaches you in your weekly classes.
Speaker 4: That you go to correct. Her name's Elle and she's
Speaker 4: absolutely gorgeous. So you guys got to meet her.
Speaker 3: So if you want to head along to our Instagram
Speaker 3: at couple of mitches, we've got the video, which I feel.
Speaker 4: Is highly necessary to really understand what we were doing.
Speaker 3: I'll do my best to describe it here on the podcast,
Speaker 3: but the video drops Monday afternoon on Instagram.
Speaker 4: Make sure you keep an eye out.
Speaker 3: I feel like I should explain before we get too
Speaker 3: carried away what bar actually is. It's spelled bre. It's
Speaker 3: not like a bar as in a pub. It's kind
Speaker 3: of like yoga and polarates, but it incorporates elements of
Speaker 3: ballet as well, hence the ballet bar that you often
Speaker 3: lean on. And it says online that bar is a
Speaker 3: toning workout which engages muscles deep inside your body that
Speaker 3: your standard exercises like squats, and lunges and sit ups
Speaker 3: do not reach.
Speaker 2: I agree with that A lot about, to be honest
Speaker 2: with you, a lot of bounce and up and down.
Speaker 2: It felt like I was a toddler at some sort
Speaker 2: of child's class looking at myself in the mirror.
Speaker 5: But no, I'm not gonna knock it. I'll give you
Speaker 5: my verdict at the end.
Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Well, as you're about to hear, there were
Speaker 3: muscles that Mitch Jerry didn't know he had, that he
Speaker 3: discovered in the class. It was quite funny to witness,
Speaker 3: to be honest, but in this audio, just imagine there
Speaker 3: being really fun music playing because obviously we've had to
Speaker 3: remove the background music and edit it out so that
Speaker 3: there's no licensing shit. But we started with a dance
Speaker 3: to a Taylor Swift song. We were doing fucking grape vines,
Speaker 3: jumping jacks, and even burpies, which are fucked Like, who
Speaker 3: doesn't hate burpies? Yet there's something about doing a burpie
Speaker 3: to a Taylor Swith song that makes me think.
Speaker 4: Actually, I don't mind.
Speaker 5: It was just you know, I just do you think?
Speaker 5: Let's roll it? So this is the warm up?
Speaker 2: Is it?
Speaker 5: At the bar? Class?
Speaker 6: Beautiful?
Speaker 3: Al is here and instruct that today. Got any words
Speaker 3: of warning for Cheervy here? What can you expect?
Speaker 1: They're heavier than I look Mitch and Jenna?
Speaker 7: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely, yeah, completely, it's gonna hurt. Okay,
Speaker 7: you're gonna sweat yep, and you're definitely going to dance
Speaker 7: like a pro.
Speaker 5: Oh we can do that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's like a normal saiday night. Now, do you
Speaker 1: want to dance warm up?
Speaker 6: We better?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, want to dance warm up?
Speaker 8: Let's do it?
Speaker 5: My heart wright's already at one twenty? Is that a problem?
Speaker 7: And I haven't Well, it's about to lift up. We're
Speaker 7: going to do my favorite warm up dance. It's maybe
Speaker 7: Taylor Swift. We may be about to shake it off.
Speaker 1: Okay, fantastic, all right, we're going to go for a
Speaker 1: little grape mind do we know how to do that? One?
Speaker 1: We go to the side, We have a little clap.
Speaker 8: Can you kick yourself in the bike so I don't
Speaker 8: have to?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 5: And you ever required? Have you done this before?
Speaker 6: I'm sim Is it anything like bomba bar class?
Speaker 8: No step for the dance part, there's music. Let's kick
Speaker 8: it out again.
Speaker 6: I lied to you.
Speaker 3: Generally, it's like saying it's.
Speaker 8: Now from here, we're going to do a plattis berth.
Speaker 1: Are you were ready?
Speaker 8: We wrote down, play your hands, step it out, step
Speaker 8: it in. Now you can go a bit harder. We
Speaker 8: can make it a little jump if you like, Yeah,
Speaker 8: there we go.
Speaker 5: Do you just have a DC on site?
Speaker 8: Just I hope I may never have to use one?
Speaker 6: Okay, George, isn't this more fun than your hot girl warf?
Speaker 6: Full shift about that?
Speaker 1: This is a warmer all right?
Speaker 6: We haven't even gotten the bar involved, mate, Fucking hell.
Speaker 5: That was pre bar involvement.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, And so we eventually did get the bar involved.
Speaker 3: We had like one hand holding onto the bar for
Speaker 3: support while we were doing some plaids, which is where
Speaker 3: the ballet.
Speaker 4: Influence comes into it.
Speaker 3: So obviously you'll see it in the video, but for
Speaker 3: now it's pictures doing slut drops on our tippy toes.
Speaker 4: That's pretty much what we were doing.
Speaker 3: And it was also at this point what you're about
Speaker 3: to hear while we were doing the pleas that you
Speaker 3: Mitch decided to do like a parent teacher interview with
Speaker 3: l who's my regular instructor, and get some feedback on
Speaker 3: how I do in class, which made me very nervous.
Speaker 5: All right, here it is.
Speaker 1: Let's do some pleas. That's what we came for, right.
Speaker 6: Is that like a baked good?
Speaker 1: Yes, Fanta, it's.
Speaker 8: This beautiful little cinnamon scroll thing.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I'm down.
Speaker 8: Tail shoots to the.
Speaker 1: Floor, eyes scream.
Speaker 6: Where'd that come from?
Speaker 5: That's in the quad?
Speaker 7: All little squeezes up doesn't hurt it all. No, it's
Speaker 7: a smile, not a grimmace. I'm sure in there four
Speaker 7: three two one. We're gonna lift all the way upstands
Speaker 7: super tall, keep your heels lifted, Elle, Yes, did.
Speaker 1: You treat Mitch?
Speaker 9: And I say treat because I feel this is a
Speaker 9: mental condition on a daily basis, on a weekly basis.
Speaker 9: If this was like a parent teacher interview, Yes, and
Speaker 9: I'm his parent, and I ask, how is my gorgeous
Speaker 9: child doing? What is your review and take on Mitchell's ability?
Speaker 9: Got to pepay.
Speaker 7: Look, min, she's nailing the plia. He's really nailing it.
Speaker 7: I'm going to give him an a plus for that.
Speaker 9: Okay, I'm not about general classes like normal classes.
Speaker 1: Oh he's getting so strong. I'm actually very impressed.
Speaker 8: Oh well, he gets to take a bower right.
Speaker 6: Now, did you do that make you good at sport?
Speaker 6: From that?
Speaker 5: Does that, Mitch, make you feel good?
Speaker 2: Because I know you were anxious about doing it in
Speaker 2: front of her and bringing us to the studio that
Speaker 2: you go to space.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I remember, I told you guys before we agreed
Speaker 3: to do this, before we organize the bar class that
Speaker 3: I was like, I just think l is so cool
Speaker 3: and if we were in high school together, I would think, Oh,
Speaker 3: she's too cool for me. I can't talk to her.
Speaker 3: She's one of the cool kids. So when you asked
Speaker 3: her to give feedback, I was like, this could crush me.
Speaker 3: Like she has that favorite teacher energy where if they
Speaker 3: ever said anything bad about you, it would just destroy you.
Speaker 4: And I thought, oh my god, if she says I'm
Speaker 4: bad at bar, I might cry.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's not many people on planet Earth that have
Speaker 3: that sort of fucking power over me.
Speaker 2: She's very cool, Like I was very intimidated by it,
Speaker 2: and the way you fucking positioned it was Genner at
Speaker 2: the back, You're in the middle, that I'm at the
Speaker 2: front in front of the instructor, and I've never done
Speaker 2: it before. It's like putting a ninety year old woman
Speaker 2: in exit row on a virgin fly.
Speaker 3: I needed you up the front so you could pay
Speaker 3: attention because I've done it a million times before, mate, true.
Speaker 5: True, And I think you just wanted to check out
Speaker 5: my ass. To be perfectly honest with you.
Speaker 4: I was checking out my own in the mirror, just quietly.
Speaker 5: I was checking out yours too. What do we do next?
Speaker 5: Because I've mentally blocked it all out.
Speaker 3: So this is when we did like, fuck, it's hard
Speaker 3: to describe. It was when we like did those flamingo neils.
Speaker 3: So like you know when you go to church and
Speaker 3: they make you genuflect at the altar, like get on
Speaker 3: one knee. Actually, the way I described it was it's
Speaker 3: like you're getting down on one knee to propose, but
Speaker 3: then before your knee hits the ground, you change your
Speaker 3: mind and go op.
Speaker 4: Actually I'm not proposing, so.
Speaker 3: So it's like you get down on one knee, but
Speaker 3: your knee never touches the ground.
Speaker 4: You just go up and down and it fucking burns.
Speaker 2: Yeah, this was really hard. This was not This was
Speaker 2: like the middle of the class, would you say?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: And this is also the part where I was a
Speaker 3: bit embarrassed because you kept asking l questions, and some
Speaker 3: of them were so inappropriate as you're about to hear.
Speaker 1: All right, let's stand and face the bar.
Speaker 7: Let's bring the shoulders relaxed by our sides, our feet
Speaker 7: are in parallel on train tracks. Slift your right leg
Speaker 7: for me. You're a little flamingo. You know I was
Speaker 7: gonna say that, but it's true.
Speaker 8: All right, here we go.
Speaker 7: Can we sit all the way back so that our
Speaker 7: shin hovers above the match?
Speaker 6: Eggs lift?
Speaker 1: Let's go a little bit quicker.
Speaker 9: Muscles being activated that have never been used since I
Speaker 9: came out of the womb.
Speaker 5: I think I'm regrowing an umbilical cord.
Speaker 8: Oh, you need to jump a little bit closer to
Speaker 8: that bar.
Speaker 1: I'm actually telling Yeah.
Speaker 5: Now, would you say my quad's are gorgeous?
Speaker 1: I would say that, Yes, I know a good cord
Speaker 1: when I see her.
Speaker 9: Yeah, now my penis has gone fully inverted?
Speaker 5: Is that normal?
Speaker 1: I can't comment.
Speaker 3: Okay, don't speak to my teacher line as show my
Speaker 3: faith here again, I'm asking serious questions.
Speaker 7: You get some overshare sometimes. That was definitely next level.
Speaker 9: That's all the indolphins.
Speaker 5: Dolphins don't I can't focus.
Speaker 3: Dolphins that you told her your penis was inverted.
Speaker 5: I was like, Mitchell, she's sweet. She appreciate didn't appreciate it,
Speaker 5: I'm sure, but she like she was fine.
Speaker 4: She handled that like she's fine. She's fine, She's a
Speaker 4: good sport.
Speaker 3: You asked a lot of questions of l Some were inappropriate,
Speaker 3: some of them were actually quite interesting. This is when
Speaker 3: you asked about the history of pilates, and I didn't
Speaker 3: even know this.
Speaker 5: Oh yeah, el can you what's the go with pilarates?
Speaker 9: Is it like a new thing?
Speaker 6: What's the do you have like a story of pilates?
Speaker 1: Pilates is are very old?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 6: Yes?
Speaker 7: So Joseph Pillarties invented it in the twenties. Let's pulse
Speaker 7: here a little pulse. So it started out originally the
Speaker 7: exercises he was inspired by gymnastics and boxing, That's the
Speaker 7: two that he got inspired by. But when he was
Speaker 7: a prisoner of war, Wow decided to find exercises he
Speaker 7: could do in a self in four three two. So
Speaker 7: by the time he moved to America in the forties,
Speaker 7: he started Joe's Jim was not called pilates. It was
Speaker 7: called contrology. And his whole thing was actually about finding control.
Speaker 7: Was it a cult or he was totally doesn't it.
Speaker 9: Sound starts in a prison cell and ends at a gym? Okay,
Speaker 9: so was he he had to be gay? I mean
Speaker 9: this is straight?
Speaker 5: Oh really closeted?
Speaker 1: No, he had.
Speaker 7: He had multiple wives and very pretty ballerina lovers.
Speaker 9: Wow, let's go well, surely that's ten reps.
Speaker 5: So disrespectful. I just yelled back at her, so rude, Mitchel,
Speaker 5: I don't listen.
Speaker 3: You were trying to distract her, weren't you. But the
Speaker 3: whole time she's giving you his three lesson but and
Speaker 3: pulse and up like she was not going to be
Speaker 3: thrown So impressive. And he spent time in a prison
Speaker 3: mal narish daily three two Like, if that doesn't convince
Speaker 3: you to sign up for Pilarates, what were true?
Speaker 4: You can do it in prison?
Speaker 2: True? I know, true? Very impressive. I love that history.
Speaker 2: I can't believe that a man in prison, he's so gay.
Speaker 2: By the way, started Pilarates good history? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Is it just mean podcast by a coupla mitches?
Speaker 4: Anyway, So I'll play one more for you.
Speaker 3: So this is when we were doing a balancing exercise.
Speaker 3: And I'm really shit at those because even after all
Speaker 3: these months of classes, I cannot balance to save my life.
Speaker 3: And so we were sort of lunging one foot forward,
Speaker 3: one foot behind us on the mat. But then we
Speaker 3: lifted the back foot, and so we're balancing on one
Speaker 3: and the whole time we also had hand weights in
Speaker 3: our hands to make it even harder. But this was
Speaker 3: the point, Mitch. Remember how you didn't realize you thought
Speaker 3: we were being offered something else other than hand weights.
Speaker 5: I missheard. I misheard.
Speaker 2: I was clearly very hungry. Yeah, this was a very
Speaker 2: awkward moment.
Speaker 1: All right, we're going to do some hand weights.
Speaker 5: Oh yum.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: Now I'm going to warn you this is high wrap,
Speaker 7: even the slow load, so don't be deceived.
Speaker 9: To one point five kits.
Speaker 5: Why they called hand weights?
Speaker 6: How are you holding them?
Speaker 1: Let's think about it.
Speaker 6: Oh no, I thought she said hand weights, ham weight.
Speaker 8: Yes, I seriously thought that way.
Speaker 6: You said, oh yeah, I'm not even making it a
Speaker 6: dumb job. You're going to bring out a Christmas hame.
Speaker 1: Lift it.
Speaker 8: That's what we trained for.
Speaker 5: Donnie's good. I thought you were going to give me
Speaker 5: some wine.
Speaker 1: Let's all face outwards. We're going to stand out right
Speaker 1: foot forwards.
Speaker 7: Okay, We're going to find our lunch position here, so
Speaker 7: your front knee stacks over your front ankle.
Speaker 1: Take those handweights back behind you. Now from here we're
Speaker 1: going to lift that back foot. We're going to squeeze
Speaker 1: the weights in a little bicep, curl and stretch it back.
Speaker 7: Find your balance exhaler lifted up, stretch it back.
Speaker 1: So we do a lot of balance work in bar.
Speaker 6: What's the reason again.
Speaker 7: So that when you're eighty you don't have to lean
Speaker 7: on a piece of furniture to put your on pants on.
Speaker 1: That's why eighty.
Speaker 9: Yeah that happens.
Speaker 6: Yeah, balance, I'm the worst at all that.
Speaker 7: But balance, just like any other aspect of fitness, can
Speaker 7: be trained. I like endurance, just like strength, Just like
Speaker 7: your health, balance is trainable.
Speaker 6: Is it normal to not be able to balance on
Speaker 6: one side?
Speaker 1: Bard? Yes, that is really normal.
Speaker 7: Oh God, unfortunately we're all a little uneven.
Speaker 9: Well did you ever we fit bored when you're a child?
Speaker 6: No? I didn't. Interesting.
Speaker 5: That shocks me.
Speaker 6: You've got to admit, though, Mitchell.
Speaker 3: For someone like me with eighty h to d it
Speaker 3: doesn't get boring because they move They move on so quick.
Speaker 6: And keep it interesting.
Speaker 5: This has been so quick.
Speaker 6: The idea of going for a fifty minute walk makes
Speaker 6: me sick.
Speaker 5: God, I was so rude to bored. Was it very
Speaker 5: shocking that she didn't?
Speaker 8: Oh?
Speaker 3: I think she frothed it, to be honest, Okay, so
Speaker 3: that is our hobby hunt hobby number one at a
Speaker 3: bar class at the Polate Studio. Yeah, to be honest,
Speaker 3: that's pretty much as much audio as we can play
Speaker 3: on the podcast, because it was at this point in
Speaker 3: the class that like, we all got so puffed we
Speaker 3: couldn't freaking talk. So you're gonna have to check out
Speaker 3: the video, like I said at couple of mitches on Instagram,
Speaker 3: if you want to see the part where we really
Speaker 3: start to struggle.
Speaker 2: It was really hard. So I will say, let's make
Speaker 2: a decision. Now, are we going to continue with this hobby?
Speaker 2: Will we power through?
Speaker 5: Mitch? I mean you go first. I think I know
Speaker 5: your answer.
Speaker 2: Of course.
Speaker 3: The one thing I hate about being back home and
Speaker 3: Bogengate at the moment is that I'm missing my bar classes.
Speaker 2: Okay, so yeah, it's a no brainer. Mitch is continuing,
Speaker 2: but I might even up at to three a week. Fuck,
Speaker 2: it's a lot, eh, Jenna, will you continue Bar.
Speaker 8: Well, I was lied to.
Speaker 5: I told that bar was similar to zumba. Huh.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I enjoyed it.
Speaker 5: I had a lot of fun and I will be back.
Speaker 5: You'll be back, yesh fabulous A right.
Speaker 2: Well, my verdict, will I a tender bar class?
Speaker 5: And will I continue on? The answer? Will shock nobody?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: I will not. I'm not going to bar. I didn't
Speaker 2: enjoy it. I don't like it. I'm in hot girl walks.
Speaker 2: That's all I need.
Speaker 5: Maybe down the track. I'm not ruling it out for
Speaker 5: a turn. No, I don't. I don't like it.
Speaker 2: I didn't enjoy it, and I felt very uncomfortable looking
Speaker 2: at myself in the mirror the whole time. That doesn't
Speaker 2: get me off.
Speaker 3: Oh I mean, no one's telling you to do it
Speaker 3: instead of hot girl walks.
Speaker 4: I did both.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but I enjoyed it. I just can't see it
Speaker 2: fitting into my life at the moment. And that's the truth.
Speaker 6: Okay, Well, I tried.
Speaker 3: Like I said, it's perfect for people like me with
Speaker 3: ADHD who find exercise really fucking boring, Like it just.
Speaker 4: Flies by the class. I'm like, oh my god, it's
Speaker 4: been an hour.
Speaker 5: Already, does fly by.
Speaker 3: It's the first time I found exercise it's fun, which
Speaker 3: I feel like that is a good thing, right.
Speaker 5: I completely agree and that yes, and that's what it's
Speaker 5: all about, to be honest with Joe. Oh my god,
Speaker 5: what are you doing?
Speaker 2: Sorry, I'm just googling Joseph Pillarate's. Oh my god, that
Speaker 2: is a puff if ever I've seen one. Oh my god, Mitchell,
Speaker 2: You've got to google this.
Speaker 4: Look at him already.
Speaker 5: He looks so uncomfortable, Mitchell.
Speaker 2: The first shot is him arching his back for the camera.
Speaker 2: I mean, I've seen a couple of those photos of
Speaker 2: my snapchat last week. I'm look at him with the women,
Speaker 2: I mean, look at the body on him though he's
Speaker 2: very fitly. You want to know a crazy fact that
Speaker 2: I had a bioscan done at my gym this week.
Speaker 2: I've gone from thirty nine percent body fat to twenty
Speaker 2: four when last week. Yeah, oh god. The next hobby
Speaker 2: will be announced soon. We're not going to tell you,
Speaker 2: but let's just say it's essensual sexy activity.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we'll bring that to you in a couple
Speaker 3: of weeks. And again, thank you to Scouties and Yoga
Speaker 3: for having this. They're in Saint Peter's and Marrickville in
Speaker 3: the Unesta, Sydney. They're just girl just I love them?
Speaker 6: Is it just me?
Speaker 9: You can follow the show online just search a couple
Speaker 9: of miches.
Speaker 6: If you don't, you're a tickhead.