Episode 20: Do We Really Need Hobbies?

This week on Bridges & Breakdowns, Alyzza and Lorryn are joined by their longtime friend and fellow yapper, Arielle (aka BookHeauxTales), to ask the big millennial question: Do we really have time for hobbies in this economy?

Together, they unpack what it means to care for yourself outside of working to survive and hustle culture. We dive into why hobbies matter, how pursuing your interests and the gift of playfulness sustains our spirits, and why every passion doesn’t need to be monetized.

💡 Expect both seriousness and unseriousness:

• Glow & Grow (The Underground Railroad, vacations, Virgo szn birthdays, ER chaos, and long nails gone wrong)
• Whew Girl, What Is Going On? (remembering Chadwick Boseman, the internet prematurely burying Trump, Taylor Townsend vs. OStankHo, and Karen Huger’s Potomac redemption arc)
• Main Segment: The Hobby Files—what hobbies mean for mental health, loving yourself, joy, and resistance against a grind culture that will work you until you’re in the ancestral plane.

It’s laughter, storytelling, and sidebars with several public health PSAs sprinkled in (because this is still Bridges & Breakdowns).

✨ Bottom line: sometimes choosing joy and pursuing our hobbies is the most radical thing we can do.

CHAPTERS

00:00 - Welcome

05:40 - Break the Ice, Not the Bridge

15:58 - Glow & Grow

30:20 - Whew Girl, What is Going On?

30:43 - Long Live the King: 5 Years without Chadwick Boseman

37:39 - Ding Dong We Thought that Orange B*tch was Dead

44:26 - Eat Sh*t Miss Millie: Taylor Townsend Let that Racquet Talk and B*tches was Mad

51:10 - The Grand Dame is Free: Karen Huger is Out of the Pokey!

57:00 - Teenior Citizens Gone Wild: Jim Jones Must STOP!

01:01:50 - I LOVE MEN!

01:08:00 - Bridges & Breakdowns

02:09:18 - P.S.