MYM – Sport

And today, unusually, we're talking about sport and more...

We talk a lot about playing sport and how good that is for your physical health and also your mental health.

And we talk about exercise a lot, but we're kind of talking about the more passive part of it.

And that is following sport, barracking for a team, sitting in a stadium or in front of a TV.

watching sport and i think there's there's and this is precipitated by the fact that we're recording this in the maybe it's hard to say two-thirds of the way through the world cup although these things do tend to drag on uh the football world cup might be going for another couple of months for all i know i I will declare my colours.

I just could not give a stuff about any of it.

But last night I watched the Rugby League State of Origin and I was passionate and excited about that.

So I think there's three types of people.

There's people who aren't interested in any sort of sport at all in terms of spectating.

And my family is full of those people.

I know lots of those people.

And they're kind of...

I find it hard.

They look at me and say, why do you care? And I find it hard to answer, but we'll explore that.

Second category is people like me who...

Follow a couple of sports.

I follow cricket and rugby league.

I'm a bit of rugby union.

Not really interested in who's winning the AFL.

Couldn't give a stuff about the football World Cup, et cetera.

So you got a few and you follow them.

I didn't go to games.

I watch them on telly and I get kind of excited when my team's winning and I get a little bit sad when they're losing.

And then at the extreme end, you got those who are very, very passionate about football following sport and it's a big part of their life and they pay hundreds of dollars to go to games.

Sometimes they even go overseas.