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Ebony (0:00)
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Ebony (1:35)
Welcome to Pretty Private with Ebony, the podcast where silence is broken and stories are set free. I'm Ebona, and every Tuesday I'll be sharing all new anonymous stories that would challenge your perceptions and give you new insight on the people around you. Every Tuesday, make sure you listen to Pretty Private from the Black Effect Podcast network. Tune in on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to your favorite shows.
Bobby Bones (2:07)
This is a podcast called 25 Whistles. Talking sports. And they all wear a whistle. Yeah, it's stupid, but what did you expect? It's a podcast called 25 Whistles. 25 Whistles. Hey guys. Me solo. My neck hurts on my left side especially. I was at the batting cages yesterday and hitting baseballs too, by the way, which I haven't hit baseballs in many years. And so I go with a buddy of mine and we get there and there's like 2510 year olds that showed up five minutes before us. And so they have completely taken over the cages with the pitching machines and rightfully so. The batting cages aren't really for adult men. Whatever. There are some softball guys out there sometimes, but mostly, yeah, it's kids who are playing baseball. And so we get there. So we decided we're going to get in one of these rooms, one of these areas where you can actually throw batting practice. And so it's him and I, we borrowed a bat and we got a bucket of balls and so we're throwing and swinging two things our bodies don't normally do. And so yeah, left side of my neck is killing me. My back's a little tweaked but. And I'll say it now, maybe I won't be so specific, but the All Star weekend is in Atlanta. Not this weekend, but next weekend. And I will be participating in something where I have to hit baseball as far. So that is what I'm practicing for. And I guess more than practicing, I'm just trying to get to a place where I don't get there and embarrass myself. So it's kind of the goal. But we did that yesterday. I'm a little bit sore. And again, I played rec softball last year. I played in the MLB celebrity softball game last year and that was fun. Heck, I was mvp. That was awesome. Really, really fun night. But I haven't hit a baseball 10 years. Like a fast pitch baseball. So finally after we threw a bunch of batting practice to each other, we got into a machine because I guess the kids left and we put it on 60 miles an hour and and just swung away. Regardless, I'm sore as crap. I'm here. But I'm going to try not to embarrass myself coming up. And I can give you more details soon, I'm sure. I don't even think I'm supposed to say that, but it's in like a week and a half, so I really don't think they care what I say. But it will be in Atlanta, if anybody's listening to this in Atlanta. And it's going to be that weekend, it's actually going to be this Sunday. I can tell you that. Of All Star Weekend. And you want to come out, would love to see you, would love to meet you, that type of thing. So yeah, that's where we are as of right now. I Also was looking at this least attractive hobbies for men to have. And I think the reason that it popped up in my feed is because I was probably doing a very unattractive hobby for an adult man, which was I was in a batting cage when there were kids all around. So probably at a purpose, though, right? But here we go. The top 15 least attractive hobbies to women that men do. Number one is comic books. And I don't have any comic books. I have friends that have comic books. And I don't want to be terribly judgmental about any of these because I'm sure I have some of these. I read, like five or six, and I stopped and thought I would just read them as I did this segment and reacted them. But women think comic books are really nerdy. It's number one at 33% here on the list. Think about comic books is much like baseball cards. And that may pop up later. There's some real value. If you get a good one, you get an old one, you save. Like, there's some value in that. But also, it's like comic books are hurting anybody. And also nerds. I'll say that because I think I am a nerd. Also, nerds end up being everybody's bosses in school. Oh, you're a nerd. Oh, you're a dork. You're by yourself. You're reading your books. Yeah, they end up being everybody's bosses. But I hear you. Comic books, number one. And number two, cosplay. Now, I watched a TikTok video, I think it was last night, where there's this creator, and he goes to these, I'll call them cosplay fairs, where all these people are dressed up like video game characters. And I've seen them do this on a few. So it's not like I came across this one time, but there was a dude dressed up like Wreck It Ralph from the cartoon. And he goes and he has this huge tent, and he's with this dude who's dressed up like Wreck It Ralph. And the guy's fooling in character, and he says, wreck It Ralph, will you switch your costumes with whatever's in the tent? And the guy's like, I don't know. I've been Wreck It Ralph for, like, the past 12 years. Do I want to switch? And the guy's like, it's up to you, but once you switch, you don't get your other costume back. And so the guy's like, okay, let's do it. It's kind of a fun video because the guy goes in the tent and I don't even know who he came out as. It was like some dog and he had a spot over his eye and he was in, it looked like a Ghostbusters uniform. I didn't know the cartoon, but I thought the content was really fun. And you know, I'm not going to hate on anybody going to any cosplay stuff because if I wear a jersey to a game, like a little bit that's cosplay, just like a tiny fraction. Number three, debating. Yeah. I don't know a single person who would say their hobby is debating. I know people who are challenging and argumentative. I think I'm one of them and I kind of do it on the air. But debating as a hobby, I don't know debating as a hobby, I don't know anyone that does that. And number three, I did see last night my wife and I went to dinner and we were driving by the sign that said trivia every Thursday night at Corky's at like 7:30pm and Corky's is a barbecue chain. And I told my wife, I was like, I'll go if you'll go. And I'd probably go anyway. But she was like, no, thank you. No thank you. I don't want to do trivia night. So I don't know if trivia pops up on this, but trivia night and debating, I'm going to put those in the same kind of category. I love trivia. And not to super flex on Everybody, but in seventh grade, I was the captain of the 12th grade quiz bowl team. That's right. And again, I know trivia and debating are not the same thing, but I think for this they kind of are. I think they fit in that same category. At least I'm gonna put them in that category. But it was like the one thing in my life that I was good at where I naturally would just show up. And people knew that guy was good at that because I was a seventh grader. I was 12 years old competing against 17 year olds. And when I was in seventh grade, it wasn't like I was dominating 17 year olds, but I can mix it up. I was like A rookie batting about 265 his rookie year. 265, 270. Hit about 24 home runs. Enough to where you go, man, respect and bright future. And boy, was it a bright future. I was awesome at Quiz bowl, but that's the only thing in my life really that I've been able to do and do so well that My reputation preceded me, and I would show up to Quiz bowl tournaments and people would be like, oh, that's the kid. That's pretty cool. Thinking back. Yeah, that's nerdy too, though. Next up is drinking. Fourth on the list, 29%. I don't drink at all, but it does seem fun. And I've said this many times that it sure does seem fun, that all my friends can just relax and have a drink now. I'm not saying that. And then I'm gonna start drinking tomorrow. I don't think at this point I'll ever drink. Mostly because now it's like I got a really long streak of never having a drink, but drinking at number four as part of a hobby. Number five, mtg. Now, this is where I stopped reading the list because I wanted to do it live and get my reaction. I don't know what MTG is, so I'm going to type it into Google. What is MTG as a hobby? Confused as what that means. Here we go. MTG stands for Magic the Gathering. Got it. Which is the collectible trading card game. As a hobby, it can mean a few different things depending on how someone is into it. It's a strategy card game where players build decks and battle each other using spells, creatures, and magical abilities. It was created in 1993. It was the first ever trading card game and is still wildly popular. It has fantasy themes. Think wizards, dragons, and elves. Ah, mtg. Magic the Gathering. Some rare magic cards are worth thousands of dollars. One Black Lotus card, the holy grail of MTG, sold for over $500,000. That's keeping people out of trouble. I got no problem with it. Nerdy. Yeah. But again, I'm pro nerd. So when I say something's nerdy, that's okay. I'm pro nerd. But yeah, nerdy as crap. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. We're at number six on the list where 27% of women say this is the least attractive. It's anime. There are certain things that I realize are probably really good. I've just never gotten into them because I don't have the interest. But. But I also respect the fact that they're probably really good. Based on its worldwide popularity, I'd like to walk through some of them. Soccer. Everybody loves soccer. That has had soccer exposure from an early age. It is the biggest sport in the world, right? Not for me. Didn't play it growing up. I grew up in rural Arkansas. We didn't have soccer. We didn't have a soccer team. We had a football team, we had a basketball team, we had a baseball team, but we did not have our home baseball field. We had to go play our home games at a school called Jesseville's Field, and they made fun of us for it because we were too poor to have our own field. But we did have those three sports. We did have a track team, except we did not have a track. And mostly it was off season football. And Coach Gandalf made us run track. And if we didn't run on the track team, we did play baseball. We did have to do district because baseball is usually over by district, but we didn't have track team, so we didn't have soccer for sure. But I do understand that soccer is amazing, even though to me it is not amazing. Another one of those. The Sopranos. Never seen an episode. I know how it ends, but I've never seen an episode. But you know what? It's probably awesome. If you start from the beginning and watch it, I'm sure that back then and probably even today, it is awesome. So many people love it that I trust and swear by it. The same thing with the Godfather. Similar vibe, right? That it's probably awesome and I just don't understand it. And I'm gonna put anime in that category. Wildly popular. I'd put it in the category with comic books, cosplay. Mostly these women are finding nerds unattractive, which kind of sucks because I'll say it again, nerds end up being the boss. But anime comes in at number six on the list. Dragon Ball is the only anime that I can think of. I'm sure there's more. Is Power Rangers Anime? No, that's not. That's humans. Is there a Power Rangers anime? Again, If I go to Google and I say, what are the most popular anime series of all time? Let's learn something together here. Here we go. Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball Z at number one. They say that's the gateway anime for millions. I'm going to say this wrong, guys. So if you're an anime freak, respect. But to. Sorry, Naruto. It's the Coming of Age Ninja Saga Number three, One Piece. It's a pirate adventure. Still going strong with over 1000 episodes. Oh, Pokemon was the one. That's the one that I probably should have known. Yeah, I know what that is. And then number five, Attack on Titan. So those are the biggest anime of all time. Or animes or anime show. However you say that. Number seven, makeup. I don't know what that means. As a hobby, how would makeup be A hobby unless you were dressing like a woman. But that's is. I don't know if that's a hobby. I don't know. I want to get that one. Next up is crypto. Totally understand how women could be annoyed with crypto Bros. By the way, I don't know anybody that's made any real money off crypto. Like I've made some money off crypto, except I've never cashed it out. And the only reason I made money off crypto was six years ago I put a couple thousand dollars in because it was the thing and I forgot about it and I put it in an account and I just forgot. And then I opened it up a year and a half or so ago and it had times six or seven. But if I had been involved in it the whole time, I would have sold it at some point. So I know nothing about crypto except what I've learned in the past few years. And I've been very fortunate that I bought it and forgot it. Next up is cigars. Guys that are obsessed with cigars. Smoking anything just seems gross to me. And no judgment on the moral part of smoking anything. I really have. I don't care what you do in your own time, as long as you're not hurting animals or kids and you're generally nice to other people. All good. Just smoking stuff. Gross. And with a cigar. I could be wrong here. I've never smoked a cigar. I've never smoked a cigarette. I've never smoked anything. But you don't like inhale it, right? Don't you just go? Isn't that what it is? My cigar culture is very weak. Alright, next up, clubbing. So what I'd say to this is, I think it's number 11. I think if you're over like 26 and you're still going to the club, there's a mark of like 24. Anything past that, you start to go back down the mountain of coolness. But I think going to the club's cool. 20. Some clubs can't get until 21, probably most. But 21, 22, 23, 24 still cool. 25 is fine, but I'm saying it then stops going climbing up the mountain to that yodel is coming back down the other side of the mountain. So I would say clubbing at 25 starts to get less cool. 26 more so less 27. If you're like 33 and you're in the club, I get why women are not attracted to that. Weed is next. And I think that's probably if that is your identity. There are people that we know that make weed a massive part of their identity. That's what they're known for. So I would say weed, funko makes the list. I don't know what that is. I have Funko pops. I have a few of them. I have six behind me right now. Three signed by Chris Stapleton, three signed by Dolly Parton. They were both very nice to sign them because I used them to auction off or give as part of any sort of charity initiative that I do. Not any, but some. But I bought them on ebay. The Chris Stapleton or the Dolly Parton. And then I just went to them and were like, hey, will you sign this? And blindly they were like, yeah, sure. So I get the funkos. I have a Dan Marino funko pop. But is that a culture? Is funko a culture? If so, I don't know anyone in funko culture. I just know people who have the occasional funko pop. I've actually got a couple of myself too. There are four left arguing online at 12.3%. My assumption is that means people that are weirdos and freakos on Reddit and just get on and troll people. Porn. Yeah. The thing about porn as a least attractive hobby is most dudes who are into it don't share. They're into it. Which I think is why it's not higher on the list. I think it'd be number one if more dudes are like, yeah, I'm gonna be honest, this is how much I'm into it. But because most dudes are kind of ashamed of it, it's way down the list. Gambling. And I'm not sure what number we're on. Let's see. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. And number 15. It's gambling. And again, I think this is one too, that for the most part, people who gamble a lot don't often share how much they actually gamble. I feel like I have a very healthy relationship with it. You know, one of the major sponsors over the past couple years of 25 whistles has been DraftKings, and I have been. I know that if I get too wrapped up in it, I will become completely consumed with it, just like anything else. Not even that it's just gambling, but I feel like I have a fun relationship with gambling that I don't bet anything that I know I can't lose. That doesn't mean I like losing. It also doesn't mean I'm like, well, I said how fun was that? Yeah, you still get pissed, but it never ruins my day. And I think at a time, I can tell you, back in the day, for me, 2003 to 2008, I played so much poker, like hold em and this is right in the boom as well. I was reading books. I was so consumed with poker. Now poker can be anything else that I often get myself into. I was so consumed with poker that if I wasn't reading a book on how to figure out the pot odds, or if I wasn't reading a book on watching tells on other players you're playing against, I was reading books on the biography of Doyle Brunson. You know, so I was really obsessed. And I was living in Austin, Texas at the time, and there were these home games. And so you would go and at the front door you would buy your chips, they'd give you your chips. And it was mostly tournament play. They weren't cash games. I rarely played in any cash games. I like tournament play because everybody started off equal and once you were out, you were out. It wasn't just somebody could show up with a bunch of money and either lose a bunch of money or if you play with in cash games, why I don't like them for the most part is people with more cash can just bully other people. And if you're a good enough player, that doesn't matter. But I wasn't a good enough player. I was a pretty good player. I wasn't a good enough player. So I like tournament play. Everybody was equal. There'd be 24 people, 18 people. We'd go in, we'd give them 250 bucks or something, and then we'd play our tournament. They'd give you a little deal. And sometimes down in the basement, sometimes you're playing like in a really wasn't. There weren't many basements in Texas in different parts of the house. But you'd be playing in different rooms. And so there were a couple instances where we were playing in a basement or like a shed area, but people would be in all these different rooms. And I probably played nine to 12 of those. Go to somebody's house, you never know the person. It's always you're in this small group. So word got around, you know, next Tuesday we're going to be at this house. The next Wednesday after that we'll be at this house. And it was almost never, I think only once or twice did ever play at the same house twice because people didn't want to get busted for doing it. And why it was illegal is because the house took a cut. Just like Vegas, the house took a cut and that's what made it illegal. You can play poker with your buddies and gamble if the house isn't taking a cut. So we play. And I played a bunch. And I probably broke even maybe what came ahead a little bit. I didn't keep a spreadsheet really, but I remember there was a game I was going to one night, I ended up not going and that game got robbed and they made everybody take off all their clothes. So I think everybody's butt naked and they robbed the place. Nobody got shot. But that's when I was like, I'm not doing house games anymore. So I started flying to Las Vegas and that was Lunchbox and I on a Southwest flight about two times a month. And we'd finish the show on a Friday morning and we'd fly to Vegas. And since we got that time back, flying over, for the most part, we'd get there around 2pm I play poker until Sunday, mid afternoon, sleep on the plane, fly back home, go back to work on Monday. And I did okay. I don't think I lost a whole bunch to where I was like, ah. I also don't think I won a whole bunch. I did win an entire tournament one time for tens of thousands of dollars, like won the whole freaking thing. Which, by the way, if you're a poker player, you know the goal is always to win the tournament, but it's really just to get in the money and go as far as you can. Because you do need some very fortunate things to happen, even if you're playing awesome. But that's what happened. I played a whole tournament at Treasure island, which they may have torn that casino down. Now is one big boat in front of it. Yeah, I'm not sure, but I remember Lunchbox coming over and it was like noon when I started and him being there at like 10:30pm because he was going into the club and then him at the end of the night at like 4am coming out and I'm still playing. I was down to like three people. I won the whole freaking thing. It was awesome. But I got a little too obsessed with poker. It wasn't so much the gambling part of, was the competition part of it. And I will bet on college football. I feel like a much better college football, but I never bet so much that it will absolutely ruin my day. Now sports will ruin my day. If Arkansas loses a game they're supposed to win, it will for sure ruin my day. That sucks. But yeah, gambling's way down. But I'm going to say for the same reason that porn is way down, I would imagine that most dudes that are gambling aren't telling their ladies how much they're actually gambling, or not even their ladies, but the lady they may be dating a little bit, they're not actually sharing how much they're dating. Or I think women would be a lot more disgusted with them. But also women can gamble too. And I'm just going from this and the last one is Manosphere. I don't know what that is, so I'm going to have to Google that. What is manosphere as far as a hobby is concerned? All right, Google says the manosphere isn't a hobby in the traditional sense like woodworking or Magic the Gathering. It's more of a loose network of online communities focused on men's issues, masculinity and gender dynamics. That said, some people treat it like a hobby and how deeply they engage. Oh, is this like Andrew Tate, like, I'll teach you how to be a real man. I'll teach you how to be an alpha. Those dudes are so lame. People treat this and by this videos, reading forums, joining podcasts, debating topics regularly like a religion. That's funny. I would have never known that's what the manosphere is. People spend hours consuming and discussing manosphere content. They follow thought leaders, Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, et cetera. Some see it as part of a self improvement lifestyle, others engage in it for entertainment, debate or community subgenres. Red Pill focuses on power dynamics and dating MGTOW men going their own way, rejecting romantic relationships entirely. PUA or pua pickup artist dating strategies and then men's self help, confidence, money lifting, life skills. See, I have no problem if it's about health and wellness. It's just this is me speaking here, not me reading from Google. It's just some of these are so toxic and a lot of these guys that try to prove how masculine they are and they want to prove to you how they can get any woman they're actually gay and this is how they're making up for it or trying to prove they're not. And there's so much misogyny in this. And I'm not somebody who's going to scream toxic masculinity all the time, but there is a such thing and a lot of that happens here. A lot of conspiracy theories too. So I didn't know what this was, but I think I'm kind of passionate about it now. It is important to separate the constructive parts, like self improvement from the darker corners. So as a hobby, I guess it's just dudes trying to be more dude. Like dude, that's wild. That's called Manosphere. That's a pretty lame name for something. But the whole point is not to be lame, right? Manosphere. That's funny.