We found a fine motor skill craft that Sam actually likes?! That's growth! The impeccable Josh Zambrano goes into incredible detail about his love for painting the mini-est of miniatures for tabletop role-playing games. Such a TREAT.

Then Josh teaches us how to paint IN PERSON and Sam and Nate gab about their love for little guys and painting as yet another lesson in creativity. And we have segments now? We're on a roll!

Hello Kitty more like Hello we love her and all of her fun friends! Rachel gives us a crash course on the absolutely adorable Sanrio universe and all their fun lil' guys. And she only made a couple of them up! You decide!

Then Nate and Sam go to Chinatown and open blind boxes live on the pod! JUSTICE FOR HANGYODON! Plus Hello Kitty Island Adventure and My Melody and Kuromi. We promise by the end you'll know what ALL these words mean. Will Sam actually CONTINUE THE HOBBY?!

Sanrio Rankings 2025

My Melody and Kuromi (Netflix)

Hello Kitty Island Adventure (Steam)

Bookmarks? Like with craft paper and a laminator? You bet your sweet ass. Josh Leeper (the other half of Short Leap Theatre Company) turned his teacher free time into a hobby so explosive that he MADE A DIAROMA OF A MINI-HOUSE. What can't this guy craft?

Then "one week" later, Nate and Sam surprise each other with personalized bookmark gifts all their own, and talk appreciation for all those craft people out there.

10 Episodes and BOY ARE OUR HANDS READY FOR PAINTING. Shaina Toledo gives us a stunning rundown on the art of doing your nails, and her personal connection to whole process.

Then, she actually DOES our NAILS. With the gel and the UV and everything! Did Sam get out alive?

We're back after the holidays, and what screams New Year new me louder than a Japanese vocaloid pop star? Moth dives us into the Miku-verse, and shows us an actually positive side of the internet?

A special holiday episode! Michael has been reading Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol every year for a while and he's seen SO MANY ADAPTATIONS. He teaches us all about keeping Christmas all the year.

Then we read the original for ourselves! Academic assigned reading vs. reading for fun. Will we learn the true meaning of Christmas?

Can a company be a hobby/obsession? Sure! Liles instructs us on demonic rituals with their hand-me-down Aryan Girl Doll and Nate overshares about his stuffed animal family meetings.

A week later, we WENT THERE. And it WASN'T THAT WEIRD. What a great capitalist company with some problems probably.

Man, that Stephen King guy wrote a lot of books! And did cocaine before he got hit by a truck! Will a book scare us? Cody Lindley has been reading King for decades and he's sure gonna try.

Then, did Nate and Sam read a whole book in a week? You decide!