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Hobbies Podcasts
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Curated hobby podcasts in 2026: Warhammer 40K lore (Lorehammer), wrestling action figures (MWFP, FigGuys), trading cards (Pack to the Future), romance reading (Fated Mates)
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You are holding a carded action figure up to the light, checking the corners for dings and deciding whether opening it would count as a betrayal. Nobody else in the room has an opinion. A good hobbies podcast does. It treats that small, faintly absurd decision as a real question, finds the comedy in it, and tells you something about plastic, scale or money that you didn't know you wanted to hear.
The form is wider than its shelf label suggests. These shows discuss gold slugs from the California rush and stage fantasy wrestling matches between trading cards. They come from a knife shop, from people rating bottom-shelf malt liquor in a tournament bracket, and from families reviewing board games. A third-party snapshot of Apple's US Hobbies chart in September 2026 placed poker, sports-card, sewing and woodworking shows inside its top twelve, which is as fair a picture of the range as any. Most of these podcasts are conversations rather than lessons. Their reward is company as much as expertise.
Listeners mostly argue about trust and attention. Knitters have disputed how much experience someone needs before teaching, and whether hours spent at a hobby prove anything about the ability to explain it. Format is the other fault line. Edison Research's June 2026 report found that 82% of weekly US podcast consumers watched video and 78% listened to audio only, two groups that overlap. Many hobbyists still want something they can follow with busy hands and eyes elsewhere. The shows below mostly work without a screen, and the best of them say so when they don't.
Collectors and the objects they can't put down
Toy podcasts are at their best when they get granular. Pegwarmers, hosted by Kevin Jones, spends Modern Cops N Crooks - Pegwarmers #228 reading the back of Bulletproof's box aloud, then turns practical: the figure's trench coat has wires in its seams, so you can shape it to billow. The episode also voices a real collector's dilemma, a brand split across toy scales: "If you collect the brand and you aren't locked into a scale, it does complicate things a little bit."
The wrestling-figure shows add insider access. The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast is hosted by Matt Cardona and Brian Myers, with producer Mark Sterling. In Complete History of T2 Figures - FROM THE VAULT!, Myers says he has no sentimental attachment to Terminator 2. The episode carries on anyway, through unpainted kits buyers had to glue and paint themselves, 1991 plushes and life-size replicas. The FigGuys - A Wrestling Action Figures & Collectibles Podcast, hosted by Tom and Mike, cares more about the hunt. In NY Toy Fair Takeover! LJN Surprises & Major Reveals! | The FigGuys #092, one host describes how finding LJN Series 2 at Target turned a one-hour outing into roughly four hours of store-hopping. Go Big or Go Rubber: FigGuys with Collect Major's Michael Kanik - FigGuys #065 adds a rueful warning about keeping boxed figures off the floor, because water in cardboard "travels up the box."
Cards and coins have their own versions of this. Pack to the Future Podcast's Sunday Night Main Event: Episode 2 - Two MAJOR Issues with an Incredible Cena Card enters wrestlers' cards into an imagined Fatal 5-Way. The match is narrated as play-by-play, and Finn Balor eliminates Mankind. S3 Episode 100: What MAJOR Card Show to Attend This Summer? is more sober, weighing shows by table count, hotel distance, heat and crowds. The Cabbage Coins Podcast, run by Tony of Cabbage Coins, goes deeper still. The Four Horsemen of the Coin-pocalypse with Ben TheCoinGeek, Noah and Owen from Rarity7 and Tony from Cabbage Coins explains that many smaller shows restrict filming for security reasons: a photo of a dealer's gold can be sent to accomplices waiting outside. The Collecting & Making page gathers more of this world.
Making things, and admitting what goes wrong
Shows about making earn trust by describing mistakes as well as finished work. In What the.......??, the owners of McNees Knives behind The Knife Freak Show discuss a flooded floor in their shop review: a hose was left running while filling a coolant tank. They decide the floor needed mopping anyway. Then they move on to a smaller Dixon knife they plan to debut at Blade Show Atlanta. It's not as big as you think!! is quietly revealing about a small business: the admin side is three people, and the owners themselves answer the Instagram messages and emails.
Outside/In, an environmental show, earns its place here with On the mend: 8 tips on how to repair your clothes. Costume designer Dante Zagros Gonzalez advises starting with a repair you can finish in one sitting, a square inch or less, rather than "300 moth holes in one sweater." The episode is honest about audio's limits. It calls the basics "quite easy. But tricky to describe in a podcast," and sends you to video for the stitches.
Basic Brewing Radio's 01-15-26 - Rhubarb Wine describes a recipe at working pace: freeze the rhubarb to break down its cells, then use nine pounds of it in a paint strainer bag inside a five-gallon bucket. Keep a pen handy. Growers can try The Beginner's Garden with Jill McSheehy, whose 423 - Grow Organic Apple Trees: what to do in years 1-3 with Susan Poizner discusses choosing a tree suited to your climate zone. The Home & Garden and Food & Drink guides continue from here.
Tasting, by the glass and the stick
Tasting shows teach attention. Cigar Rebel's Developing Your Palate III sets out a "Draw, Chew, and Exhale" method: hold the smoke, move it around your mouth, then compare it with cheese, chocolate and pretzels. The hosts also describe a monthly blind group whose notes on the same cigar land "all over the place," so they look for what tasters share. Coffee and Cigars: The Perfect Pairing matches roast levels to cigar strength and offers a simple suggestion: try black, creamy and sweet coffee and notice what changes.
Bumming with Bobcat comes from the other end of the shelf. 2026 BWB Battle Of The Booze Tournament LIVE Finals Championship Reveal crowns King Cobra and recalls the end of Old English's three-year run, all treated with the gravity of a cup final. Under the noise sits a line from Sipping the Season with Yuengling Oktoberfest: "The memories flood back all of a sudden."
The table: games, lore and painted armies
Board-game podcasts are most useful when they explain how a game feels to play. The Game Table Podcast's Bat Flip Dynasty – A Featured Table Review singles out the budget system, praising "how impactful one million dollars can feel," and admits the dice make luck a real factor. TantrumCon Review 2026 hands the microphone to the hosts' children after their first convention. Faith, who is nine, says she was excited "as soon as I heard about it." The Gateway Gamers pairs players learning games together. In Disney's The Haunted Mansion: Call of the Spirits, one player explains that he had wanted this one and received it as a Christmas gift.
Miniatures shows run hotter. In Vox Scream's Chaos Cult Yap, George returns to a Kill Team army partly because of his paint job: "it's real yellow, and I like that." Lorehammer - A Warhammer 40k Podcast shows that lore alone can sustain the hobby. In (Video) By Blade and Bolter Pt. 2 - Combat Doctrine, Culture, and Traditions, the host hopes a classic tactic returns, then remembers: "also i don't play tabletop so what do i hope for." The Tabletop & Board Games page has more.
Fandom as a hobby in itself
For some listeners the hobby is the fandom itself. The Nerd Fix's 6 Reasons to Watch Sailor Moon ✨🌙 narrows the cast to six characters and warns of heavy spoilers. Ze Shows – Anime Pulse argues over imaginary bouts in Episode 955: Tamon's B-Achiakuta, then a voice on the show admits shounen fatigue: "I need anime that gets to the point in a season in 12 episodes or less." Some gaming fans describe the same weariness with the pace of new releases. The Wait For It Podcast's What Did I Miss? (July 2026) has each guest bring one pop-culture story, then ends with a game. The Anime & Manga and Video Games guides go further.
Where to start
- For a first repair: Outside/In, On the mend: 8 tips on how to repair your clothes. Practical, encouraging and candid about when you'll need a screen.
- Curious about toys: Pegwarmers, Modern Cops N Crooks - Pegwarmers #228. A close look at a figure, ideal for hearing how collectors think.
- Family game night: The Game Table Podcast, TantrumCon Review 2026. Children's verdicts on their first convention.
- Training your palate: Cigar Rebel, Developing Your Palate III. A repeatable tasting method you can try with snacks from the cupboard.
- Patient listening: The Cabbage Coins Podcast, Ep.39 - Part 2 Intro to Pioneer Gold Coins with David McCarthy of Kagin's #numismatics #rarecoins. Gold-rush history told one coin at a time.
Start with the hobby you already have, then leave room for one you don't. The Leisure guide is there when you want to wander.
Featured shows below are part of the PlayNext catalog. Updated weekly.
Featured shows
9 shows, described rather than listed
Each has a short write-up and a note on what it does best here.
Deep-dive Warhammer 40,000 lore: two hosts alternate grandiose mock-Imperial narration and loose tabletop-buddy riffing. Assumes full canon fluency. Hundreds of episodes across 30K and 40K.
400+ episodes of wrestling action-figure collecting: Hasbros, Jakks, Mattel, PowerTown. Basement-conversation texture; two hosts who argue minor details cheerfully and know the full figure-line history.
Product-reveal and event-coverage angle on the same wrestling-figure community. Toy Fair, WrestleMania week, unboxings, and community news — faster cadence than MWFP, with overlapping coverage on shared stories like PowerTown.
Sports and wrestling trading-card collecting: Topps Chrome, Panini Prizm, WWE chrome, baseball. Pack-opening sessions alongside hobby-philosophy episodes and occasional Disney tangents.
Long-running UK video-game radio show in podcast form — dry, oblique, and comfortable with banter-first episode structures. 600+ episodes; the format predates the podcast medium and still sounds like itself.
Romance fiction for people already inside the genre. Trope analysis, publisher context, author-career framing, and seasonal previews. Fast, accretive conversation with genuine analytical depth.
Two detailing-industry insiders on ceramic coatings, paint correction, dwell time, dilution ratios, and the business side of running a shop. 950+ episodes; treats the listener as someone already near the trade.
Panel hangout covering anime, conventions, cosplay, and fandom news. Starts with personal check-ins and gets to geek content eventually — 700+ episodes of lived-in convention-community conversation.
Cheap-beer tasting as a reason to gather and talk. Bracket tournaments, wrestling guests, live specials — the beer is the occasion; the warmth and digression are the show.
Where to start
6 routes in, one per reader
*231 - Ultramarines, 40k Chapter Era* is the chapter-lore entry; *229 - Roboute Guilliman, Horus Heresy and Great Scouring* is the Horus Heresy entry point. Both assume canon fluency.
*Episode 400!* is the milestone entry; *NO Powertown Update!* and *Magnum TA and Gagne OUT of Powertown?* give the full texture of the PowerTown saga the show has been tracking.
*Irredeemable Characters: Morality Chain Redux* is the analytical entry; *S08.28: Spring 2026 Preview* is the practical-recommendation entry for anyone catching up on what to read next.
*Debunking Common Myths in Paint Correction, Ceramic Coating and Detailing Industry. Episode #950* is the technical entry; *Business Growth in 2026 and Red Flags To Look Out For. Plus, Chemical Dwell Time. Episode #945* is the business-side entry.
*#713: Zenkaikon 2026, Let's Talk About It.* is the convention-recap entry; *#715: Let's Shift This into Overfreakingdrive!* gives a fair sense of the panel's energy and register.
*S3 Episode 101: How to Still Enjoy The Hobby* is the hobby-philosophy entry; *2026 Topps Chrome WWE RIP & GIVEAWAY (PRIZE!) - Sunday Night's Main Event - Episode 7* is the product-specific WWE card entry.
Glossary
A quick Hobbies glossary
In Warhammer lore podcasting, '30K' refers to the Horus Heresy era (the backstory setting explored in the Horus Heresy novel series and the Warhammer: The Horus Heresy tabletop game), while '40K' refers to the grimdark far-future present of Warhammer 40,000. Lore shows like Lorehammer move freely between both timelines.
The three major eras of WWE wrestling action figures, named for the manufacturers: Hasbro (1990–1994), Jakks Pacific (1996–2009), and Mattel (2010–present). Collector shorthand used constantly on The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast and The FigGuys.
An independent wrestling action-figure line that became a major ongoing story in the wrestling-figure-collecting community, as of mid-2026. Multiple podcasts on this slate — MWFP and FigGuys — have tracked its production, cast, and distribution issues across dozens of episodes.
In auto detailing, a liquid polymer applied to a vehicle's exterior that bonds to the paint and provides long-term protection. A recurring technical subject on Pints and Polishing, covering application chemistry, longevity, maintenance, and the hard truths about what ceramic coatings do and don't do.
Wrestling figure collector slang for a fictional wrestling promotion run using action figures — a kind of tabletop creative play that serious figure collectors build around their collections. Referenced on The Major Wrestling Figure Podcast as part of the broader collector culture.
In romance fiction podcasting, a 'trope' is a recognized narrative pattern — enemies-to-lovers, forced proximity, secret baby, fated mates — that shapes reader expectations and community shorthand. Fated Mates uses trope vocabulary as a primary analytical frame.