Speaker 1: Hello, Hello, Welcome to the podcast. Hello, Donald Faison.
Speaker 2: Hi, Zachary brav Hello is Joel Monique.
Speaker 1: We don't have Danel today, so when we say cut
Speaker 1: that Daniel to each other, Daniel will just hear it
Speaker 1: on the recording because he's not here today. Where is he, Joel?
Speaker 3: He's with his family do in a little reunion sexy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, So listen, you've heard Donald and I talk about
Speaker 1: Cody Rigsby from Peloton so much. We really like him
Speaker 1: a lot. I've found him very entertaining and funny and motivational.
Speaker 1: I want to mention this is not an ad for Peloton.
Speaker 1: I don't even think there are are sponsors currently. But
Speaker 1: this is solely because I thought that Cody's a really
Speaker 1: interesting guy. He found a way to get me motivated
Speaker 1: to work out in a different way, and I thought
Speaker 1: that maybe he has some insights. We thought that he
Speaker 1: surely has some insights for people that want to get
Speaker 1: in shape and also just you know, achieving your goals,
Speaker 1: because this guy was where kean of McDonald's one day.
Speaker 1: Now he's one of the most successful trainers in the world.
Speaker 1: So right, Donald, we want to have Monk.
Speaker 2: I'm excited. I'm excited to talk about COVID and you
Speaker 2: know how he saved a lot of people's lives by
Speaker 2: putting them on a bike and motivating them. And you know,
Speaker 2: he was probably the most popular person at that time.
Speaker 2: So I'm really interested in hearing what he has to
Speaker 2: say about his rise. And you know, I want to
Speaker 2: talk about Dancing with the Stars and Amanda Coloots as well.
Speaker 1: And I bet he's also gonna not mind sexual innuendo
Speaker 1: since he really enjoys that in Urendo in your endo,
Speaker 1: all right, Joelle, invite him in Cody rigsby everybody.
Speaker 2: Five six, seven, eight, stories about sure we made about
Speaker 2: a bunch of dogs and nurses.
Speaker 4: Said, he's a story natural. So Ganda here, Gader here.
Speaker 2: Stuff ladies and gentlemen.
Speaker 5: Cody rigsban, wow, well an introduction, all that vibrato just
Speaker 5: for me.
Speaker 2: Yow, oh for you.
Speaker 1: You're even more handsome, not on my peloton screen, you
Speaker 1: are even hotter on the zoom call.
Speaker 3: Oh my god, thank you so much. That's very hot
Speaker 3: and hide me up straight man. And earlier we love you.
Speaker 3: Earlier you said you were busting loads.
Speaker 1: So you know, like, no, I didn't say that you'd
Speaker 1: like no I didn't say that, so the audience has context.
Speaker 1: Cody came on for a sound check and I said, Joelle,
Speaker 1: take him off because I don't want to start chatting
Speaker 1: with him and bust all my loads before recordings.
Speaker 2: That was the first innindo. Yes, and he hadn't even
Speaker 2: out of recording yet.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the show. We love you. I don't know, Donald,
Speaker 1: and I never knew if you were clocking how much
Speaker 1: we were talking about you, especially during the lockdown, because
Speaker 1: you were getting us through.
Speaker 3: Bro. You say, I've the grape fine many times, and
Speaker 3: then I've I've peeped in a few times, you know
Speaker 3: a few times before. So I'm uh honored to be.
Speaker 2: We're honored to have you, man.
Speaker 1: Okay, you really you really helped us both during lockdown.
Speaker 1: We both got bikes, but both got Pelton bikes, and
Speaker 1: we were talking about getting into it, and you know, I,
Speaker 1: of course, as a straight man, was like, Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna find the cutest chick. She'll motivate me, I'll
Speaker 1: want oh honest, no, I mean that's what my brain
Speaker 1: was thinking. And then I found this very handsome, very
Speaker 1: flamboyant came in and I never looked back.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I found that the I found that
Speaker 2: the women I just was staring at the butt and
Speaker 2: now necessarily staring at the numbers.
Speaker 3: Right, okay, and so much done right? And then.
Speaker 2: I found you. And I don't know how it was
Speaker 2: I found you. I just said, I know. My wife
Speaker 2: was the one that said you should try Cody, and
Speaker 2: I was like what she was like, try Cody, And
Speaker 2: I put you on and I laughed for the whole ride.
Speaker 2: You made me laugh so hard at a time when
Speaker 2: I had just been crying, when I was, you know,
Speaker 2: so worried about what my family was going to happen
Speaker 2: with my family, when you know, when when life just
Speaker 2: seemed so flipped, when life just seemed like it was
Speaker 2: it was bysmal, you know what I mean. We were
Speaker 2: all so scared and didn't know what to do, and
Speaker 2: then here you come and you made me laugh at
Speaker 2: a time when I didn't think I could laugh. And uh,
Speaker 2: you know, one of your rides, I cried my eyes
Speaker 2: out because of all of the joy you brought me
Speaker 2: and all of the release that I got from the
Speaker 2: endorphins from the ride and the motivation and how I
Speaker 2: could keep going in that time and so you know,
Speaker 2: I really for real, man, like you really you saved
Speaker 2: my life. Man, at a time when I didn't think
Speaker 2: there was a bright spot when COVID, all of the
Speaker 2: news out there was just so dark, you know, Black
Speaker 2: Lives Matter, all of these things were going down, and
Speaker 2: there you were, and I just I just want to say,
Speaker 2: I want to give you flowers. Man, I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Thank you. That's very kind, That's very very sweet. And
Speaker 3: I love I love when I hear stories like that,
Speaker 3: because it really, you know, you get lost in this
Speaker 3: auce of working and trying to build everything up and
Speaker 3: just staying busy, and then you forget, like the the
Speaker 3: purpose that's attached to the work that you do and
Speaker 3: the lives that you affect in like whatever you do,
Speaker 3: but specifically, you know, fitness, and especially during the during COVID,
Speaker 3: I forget almost just how that was one of the
Speaker 3: only like safe spaces or places of distraction that a
Speaker 3: lot of people had. Was like Okay, I'm doing I'm
Speaker 3: gonna work out for thirty minutes. I'm gonna forget there's
Speaker 3: a pandemic happened. I'm just gonna like be stupid and
Speaker 3: silly and have fun and it's always great to hear
Speaker 3: the impact, and so thanks for sharing that.
Speaker 1: I think for Donald and I, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: for the audience who doesn't know and doesn't use Peloton.
Speaker 1: Cody does a workout that's hard and challenging and you
Speaker 1: sweat your your ass off, but he's really funny. And
Speaker 1: I never worked out with anyone like that, and I
Speaker 1: wanted to know. I wanted to ask you how you
Speaker 1: came about finding that. I mean, obviously you're a funny person,
Speaker 1: but I never worked out with a trainer of any kind,
Speaker 1: and any either a video class or in real life
Speaker 1: who was making you crack up the whole time. And
Speaker 1: I thought like, wow, what a what a what an
Speaker 1: out of the box way to work out? And I
Speaker 1: just wondered how you came about finding that and what
Speaker 1: that when you how did you find your stride like that?
Speaker 1: Like how did it all come about? Like how did
Speaker 1: you join Peloton? And then and then how did you
Speaker 1: discover your your sense of humor in doing the class?
Speaker 3: Well, like any gay child that's had trauma, you know,
Speaker 3: I over compensate with humor and wit, So that's part
Speaker 3: of it, no, you know, I I reflected on this
Speaker 3: in my book, and I was talking about like how
Speaker 3: did I kind of get to this place. You know,
Speaker 3: I've been at Pelton just today. I think they sent
Speaker 3: me an email with today is my like nine year anniversary.
Speaker 3: So I've been at Pelton for nine years.
Speaker 2: Thundrous applause Daniel, Ye thunders.
Speaker 3: Didn't start sound there will? We will, so thank you.
Speaker 3: So it's been a long journey and it's been a
Speaker 3: lot of like ups and downs and trying different things.
Speaker 3: And I think when I first came in it listened.
Speaker 3: I had never taught a cycling class and there was
Speaker 3: a fitness class. Before I started at Pelton, I was
Speaker 3: a dancer. I was an entertainer. I kind of like
Speaker 3: knew how to be on camera. And so when I
Speaker 3: first started, I kind of was trying to copy the
Speaker 3: people that was around me, like Robin Robin Arson and
Speaker 3: Jess King and just like trying to like be like them.
Speaker 3: And that wasn't sticky. That was like not successful for me.
Speaker 3: And it wasn't until I kind of like researched my
Speaker 3: class kind of like watched it, saw what was going on,
Speaker 3: and then gave myself permission to be myself and like
Speaker 3: I'm always the person in my friend group that's like
Speaker 3: talking all the time, or making jokes or just like
Speaker 3: being being a dumb ass. And so I think once
Speaker 3: I gave myself permission to do that, I think a
Speaker 3: lot of people responded to that and really found it
Speaker 3: different than most people in the fitness space. And I
Speaker 3: think that's really what I've been able to have the
Speaker 3: privilege to do is kind of make fitness not so
Speaker 3: scary by being a dumb ass, being a clown, and
Speaker 3: allowing myself to be like self deprecating humor so that
Speaker 3: people feel more invited to a somewhat scary space. Does
Speaker 3: that make sense?
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Because
Speaker 1: people dread working out usually not everyone, Yeah, a lot
Speaker 1: of people dread working people. But when I think about
Speaker 1: taking your class, I know that I'm gonna I'm gonna laugh.
Speaker 1: I know there's going to be humor involved, and it's
Speaker 1: more likely to to make me want to do it,
Speaker 1: which I think is genius. I don't think anyone's ever
Speaker 1: done that before, and that I know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I was wondering if, at at any
Speaker 2: point in the last three years, were people like just
Speaker 2: wanting to buy you dinner when you walked out into
Speaker 2: restaurants and stuff like that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean sometimes. I mean like even I was
Speaker 3: on I was on Fire Island a few weeks ago,
Speaker 3: and the line for the bar, for the bar, did.
Speaker 1: You break Fire Island? Did you Bland?
Speaker 3: Always?
Speaker 1: You know they say break the Internet? Did you break
Speaker 1: Fire Island?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, she's well known on the island. It's
Speaker 3: all good. But I remember the line for the bar
Speaker 3: being so long, and this fierce little lesbian who was
Speaker 3: a fan, was like, do you want to drink? So
Speaker 3: like it saved me a little bit of time and
Speaker 3: I got a free drink. But you know, I always
Speaker 3: it feels weird to accept that sort of stuff, But
Speaker 3: in that moment, I was like, you know what, Yes,
Speaker 3: I'll take you it are you no? Me and I
Speaker 3: have my boyfriend Andreas, who have been with for five years.
Speaker 3: We took a little hiatus for six months, but now
Speaker 3: we're back together.
Speaker 1: So I just imagine it's an adjustment for you since
Speaker 1: you know, you've become very famous and known pretty quickly,
Speaker 1: and it must be a bit of a an adjustment
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 3: I mean, not like maybe not so in the like
Speaker 3: romance or hook up department. But because let's be honest,
Speaker 3: like my my demo is mostly like women of a
Speaker 3: certain age, and you out.
Speaker 1: That he's like Duald, I love that is like my
Speaker 1: demo is mostly women of a certain age and YouTube.
Speaker 3: No, listen, listen, listen. I'm always surprised. There's like a
Speaker 3: hashtag on the bike it says straight dudes for Cody,
Speaker 3: And I'm always very surprised when like the straight guys
Speaker 3: show up and they like are into what I'm putting down.
Speaker 3: I'm like, you know, I love to see it like
Speaker 3: we're not. So we're not. We don't fit into these
Speaker 3: boxes that we that we think we used to fit in,
Speaker 3: you know, like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, Now how did you You just said you
Speaker 1: were a dancer and and I read you you worked
Speaker 1: at the Box in Manhattan?
Speaker 3: I did, Yes, Donald, you been there.
Speaker 2: I've not been to one of Manhattan. I've been to
Speaker 2: the one in London.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Well, anyway, for those who don't know, it's a
Speaker 1: it's like a kind of a burlesque crazy club where
Speaker 1: there's performances. Cody, what did you do there? You dance there?
Speaker 3: No? So this wasn't like a very transitional part of
Speaker 3: my life is like I had been dancing professionally, like
Speaker 3: a commercial dancer, back up Frednicky Minaj, Katie Perry, such
Speaker 3: and such videos all that, and I got some point
Speaker 3: where it was like, Okay, like this isn't paying the bills,
Speaker 3: but I don't know what's next. So I really kind
Speaker 3: of went out in to the world in New York.
Speaker 3: I came back from lah I was in LA for
Speaker 3: the summer, came back and I was like, I'm just
Speaker 3: gonna work my ass off and do what I need
Speaker 3: to do to make money. So I was like cater waitering,
Speaker 3: going to the gym, working at the box, doing some
Speaker 3: side gigs. And so I was at the Box and
Speaker 3: I worked in front of the house and it was
Speaker 3: kind of a ship job. So as you know, there's
Speaker 3: a very risk show where there's lots of crazy things
Speaker 3: going on and topless girls, and so my job was
Speaker 3: to stop everyone from taking pictures on their phone even
Speaker 3: at those job.
Speaker 1: Yeah. So and then people are drunk at that time
Speaker 1: and night.
Speaker 3: They're drunk, they're annoying. So that's what I did at
Speaker 3: the Box. But fortunately the choreographer slash director.
Speaker 1: Cock blocker, Yeah, a professional talk blocker.
Speaker 3: Cocker. I can't remember what it was called. Oh god,
Speaker 3: it was so long ago. But yeah, the director knew
Speaker 3: I was a dance sir, and so he had a
Speaker 3: connection to Pelton. I was like, hey, this might be
Speaker 3: a good fit for you, and I literally was just like, yeah,
Speaker 3: here's another side gig I can do to make some
Speaker 3: some coin that's not cater watering. And then here we are,
Speaker 3: nine years later, right place, right time.
Speaker 1: Wow, did you how did you? I mean, spinning on
Speaker 1: the level that you do it is not easy and
Speaker 1: I and I wonder how you especially talking the whole
Speaker 1: time like you do. How did that transitioning from dancing on.
Speaker 2: This is the question that everyone wants to know. What
Speaker 2: what's that resistance on broy.
Speaker 3: Mine is like very similar to what I call out, Yeah,
Speaker 3: because in a honesty, I can't. I can't fake it.
Speaker 3: I can't fake it if I'm doing it like I
Speaker 3: need to do it and have a level of resistance that's.
Speaker 1: You have to talk the whole time. I was wondering,
Speaker 1: I know, but like.
Speaker 3: Babe, I can. I can sit here and talk about
Speaker 3: nothing for hours, So that's not the problem. And I've
Speaker 3: been doing it for nine years so my condition to
Speaker 3: it is is easy at this point. It's like, in
Speaker 3: all honesty, like a thirty minute second class is like
Speaker 3: nothing to me at this point. I'd just be honest
Speaker 3: not to flex or sound like.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you do it for nine years, you'd expect that.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: No, wait a second. My question was before Donald said
Speaker 1: that when you first transitioned to doing it, were you
Speaker 1: was it? Do you find it hard or did all
Speaker 1: your dancing cardio help you pick it up quickly?
Speaker 3: I think physically it wasn't like the I don't think
Speaker 3: physically it was the hardest thing to transition from dance
Speaker 3: to that. I think I had the endurance and like
Speaker 3: I worked out pretty regularly, So it wasn't that that
Speaker 3: that wasn't the hard part. It was more so I
Speaker 3: always I've always said this before, I always feel like
Speaker 3: Tom Cruise in the Minority Report when he's got that
Speaker 3: big ass screen open and like you're doing, he's like
Speaker 3: doing a million things at once. Like that's how teaching
Speaker 3: a peloton class is. Because you've got we had the
Speaker 3: studio audience, you've got the cameras, you've got the programming.
Speaker 3: You got to cue the music like you're doing all
Speaker 3: these things all at once to like simultaneously it together.
Speaker 3: So I definitely like fumbled and stumbled my way through
Speaker 3: the beginning, and even like the first community class that
Speaker 3: I did probably like a year ago, I mean nine
Speaker 3: years ago, I failed at because I was just like
Speaker 3: a hot mess, and so I had to go back
Speaker 3: to the drawing board and do it again. And then
Speaker 3: I was finally like an official instructor. So I think
Speaker 3: that was the hardest part, was just like balancing all
Speaker 3: the damn things you got going on. And then once
Speaker 3: I figured that out, then I was like, Okay, how
Speaker 3: do I make this funny and stupid and fun You know, I.
Speaker 1: Have so many questions. My next one is are you
Speaker 1: fully in charge of the music you play? Or does
Speaker 1: anyone wagh in on what music you pick?
Speaker 3: No, I'm full, fully in charge. I feel like I
Speaker 3: could never relinquish control of that because it's it's such
Speaker 3: an integral part of like the vibe and the energy
Speaker 3: and the brand and all that sort of stuff, So
Speaker 3: it would be really hard. I think there's like unless
Speaker 3: it's like a theme ride or I don't know if
Speaker 3: I should say this, but like we just had Barbie
Speaker 3: rides and I the move for the movie, and I
Speaker 3: are they like, well, I think that's like those were
Speaker 3: like official, those were official rides. And I think I'm
Speaker 3: glad that he didn't accept it when I did, because
Speaker 3: I am a SAG member and I think if I
Speaker 3: did the ride that would be technically like promoted, it
Speaker 3: would have promoting the movie. I'm glad I declined it anyways,
Speaker 3: But I was like, how am I gonna The soundtrack
Speaker 3: doesn't hit for thirty minutes or twenty minutes for me,
Speaker 3: so I don't think I would have fun teaching that class.
Speaker 3: Like there's like I listened to this. I looked at
Speaker 3: the soundtrack and I'm like, Okay, there's like three or
Speaker 3: four like solid tracks here, but like, I don't know
Speaker 3: if I could do a twenty minute, thirty minute ride
Speaker 3: to this, because like, I don't know, it's just not
Speaker 3: hitting for me specifically, right.
Speaker 2: So flash forward Dancing with the Stars, Nickoll, was it
Speaker 2: a no brainer or were you like, you know, I'm
Speaker 2: enjoying where I'm at right now, or were you like,
Speaker 2: you know, let's let's show the world who Cody is.
Speaker 3: Neither of you have done that right, no yet, but.
Speaker 1: Our friend you did it with our friend Amanda.
Speaker 3: Clutes, lovely Amandiclutes, who's a phenomenal dancer. It was kind
Speaker 3: of like, uh, I was like, Wow, this is a
Speaker 3: great opportunity. I'm like honored and like excited that they
Speaker 3: would even think of me to do it. So that
Speaker 3: was that I think going into it, I was like
Speaker 3: a little bit cockier or confident than I was once
Speaker 3: I like landed in the space. Dancing with the stars
Speaker 3: for me was like one of the most like one
Speaker 3: of the hardest things I've ever done mentally, physically and emotionally.
Speaker 3: I'm so glad that I did it. I would never
Speaker 3: do it again. Like if you put a million dollars
Speaker 3: in front of me, I think I would be like sorry, sorry,
Speaker 3: says I'm good, Like I'm not, I'm not goods.
Speaker 1: Just wait to go into detail on that. Like because
Speaker 1: of the amount of how you have to pick up
Speaker 1: choreography so quickly, Is that was that? Why?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think it's just like a lot of it,
Speaker 3: Like you're learning, Like I was a dancer, Like I danced,
Speaker 3: but like the ballroom dance is so technical and so
Speaker 3: different than a five six seven eight in a music video.
Speaker 3: So I think that's where I got a little bit cocky.
Speaker 3: And then once I like landed, I was like, oh shit,
Speaker 3: this is harder than I thought it was gonna be.
Speaker 3: That's one thing. Reality TV is so produced, and even
Speaker 3: no matter how good you do or how bad you
Speaker 3: do or whatever, there's so many different elements that go
Speaker 3: into like the scoring or the feedback that they give you.
Speaker 3: And for me, it was hard to separate like my
Speaker 3: own validation or my own worth from the idea and
Speaker 3: the fact that there it was a produced television show,
Speaker 3: like you know, like it's hard to not take what
Speaker 3: they're saying or the scores, so like personally, yeah, and
Speaker 3: that was hard for me, like emotionally. And then like
Speaker 3: from fucking like Labor Day to Thanksgiving, I had zero
Speaker 3: days off. And that's not just like me like hyping
Speaker 3: up like work culture or like you know, because you
Speaker 3: also had to keep doing peloton. Yeah. So but even
Speaker 3: I feel like even if I wasn't doing peloton, there
Speaker 3: wouldn't have been days off because you're rehearsing every day
Speaker 3: physically like non stop. So it just was it just
Speaker 3: was lot to take on. And yeah, and just like
Speaker 3: I don't know, people are nasty and rude and oh yeah,
Speaker 3: you see, like, no matter how hard.
Speaker 1: I tried, did you go down the rabbit hole of
Speaker 1: reading your haters and ship?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: I mean, like as much as I try not to,
Speaker 3: it's like, you know, i'd go on Twitter and look
Speaker 3: at look at stuff, and you'd see the nasty things
Speaker 3: that people would say or dog on you, and I
Speaker 3: don't know I should as much as I try not
Speaker 3: to do that, Like I'm only human and I'm curious,
Speaker 3: and unfortunately I got caught in those crossfires before.
Speaker 2: So that's the fucked up thing. They know you look,
Speaker 2: you look, That's why they write that ship exactly ship,
Speaker 2: so fuck you.
Speaker 3: Yeah. But on the other hand, it was like super challenging.
Speaker 3: I grew so much. I you know, it forded me
Speaker 3: a lot of opportunities during and after, and it's like
Speaker 3: such a such a special part of like my story.
Speaker 3: So I'm glad that I did it, but it was
Speaker 3: also like one of the most challenging and difficult things
Speaker 3: that I ever did.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. I was thinking about you and Amanda
Speaker 1: because you know, sometimes they give people who are quote
Speaker 1: unquote dancers shit for going on the show because you're
Speaker 1: like you're how is this how is this a challenge?
Speaker 1: And Amanda, who was a roquette, which is closer to
Speaker 1: ballroom dancing than you, who were you know, whatever kind
Speaker 1: of dancer you call it, music video hip hop, I'm
Speaker 1: not sure what you'd say it is. But she was like,
Speaker 1: this is really really fucking hard. She's like, I was
Speaker 1: a roquette, but this is not I was not a
Speaker 1: ballroom dancer. And she really found it very very hard.
Speaker 3: And she and like, listen, she had like I mean,
Speaker 3: she had great scores, and she was much more technical
Speaker 3: than I am. And yeah, I mean there was a
Speaker 3: point where we were bush exhausted and it was just
Speaker 3: so much.
Speaker 1: And the whole world is weighing in on you. I
Speaker 1: mean everyone who watches it. I mean, that'd be so hard,
Speaker 1: because it's one thing to just get trolled or shot
Speaker 1: on just for being alive and being a public figure.
Speaker 1: But you're going on a show that's a competition where
Speaker 1: you are judged, so you're saying, like, judge me, motherfuckers,
Speaker 1: and people are very happy, to.
Speaker 3: Happy, very happy.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. Another thing
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you was what's it like in
Speaker 1: the culture of Pelton, because I imagine you're the one
Speaker 1: of the most I know that you're one of the
Speaker 1: most famous people that are doing it. Is there is
Speaker 1: it ever uncomfortable with your peers because you've kind of
Speaker 1: broken out as as the face or one of the
Speaker 1: stars of the company.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna I was gonna just to piggyback
Speaker 2: on that you are one of the faces. There are
Speaker 2: several faces of Peloton, but you are. And then there's
Speaker 2: people that you know, do y'all ever run into each
Speaker 2: other because it doesn't seem like you're in the same studio.
Speaker 2: Some people are in different areas.
Speaker 1: No, they're all in New York.
Speaker 3: I think, well, well that's sort of true. Okay, So
Speaker 3: just I'll go the first question. So there's a New
Speaker 3: York studio and that's probably where like, let's say thirty
Speaker 3: five to four of the instructors are I don't know
Speaker 3: their math is. And then there's a UK studio which
Speaker 3: has our English team and the German team, so that's
Speaker 3: probably another ten to fifteen people. So that's a total
Speaker 3: I think of fifty or so instructors at this point.
Speaker 3: So the vast majorities in New York City. In New
Speaker 3: York City, there's four studios, So you've got the yoga studio,
Speaker 3: the Strength Studio, the tread Studio, and the cycling Studio.
Speaker 3: We all we depending on your schedule, Like I see
Speaker 3: about the same on a regular basis, Let's say ten instructors.
Speaker 3: I guess like I see the same ten instructors, and
Speaker 3: then you know, there's like events that we have that
Speaker 3: we all kind of like cross paths and see each other.
Speaker 3: And then we just had probably at the beginning of summer,
Speaker 3: our instructor Summit where like all of the instructors from
Speaker 3: all across the globe came together and we had a
Speaker 3: very lovely, like two or three intense but fun days.
Speaker 3: And as far as my colleagues and like compare each
Speaker 3: other's success or whatever, I think that's kind of what
Speaker 3: we're getting out a little bit. Fortunately, everyone has been
Speaker 3: cast to kind of like be in their own lane
Speaker 3: and also share their story and appeal to different groups
Speaker 3: of people. So you know, I try to think in
Speaker 3: this like abundance mindset that there are enough seats at
Speaker 3: the table and there's enough opportunities within Peloton and outside
Speaker 3: of Peloton for all of us to like thrive and
Speaker 3: have our thing going, because, like I said at the beginning,
Speaker 3: when I was trying to copy Robin ars on and
Speaker 3: like be her, I'm not an ultra marathon on her.
Speaker 3: I'm not a vegan, I'm not a mom. I'm not
Speaker 3: like all these things that she is that she can
Speaker 3: speak to on the peloton platform and off and get
Speaker 3: all these opportunities. So I think that's the beauty of it, is,
Speaker 3: like there are enough seats at the table and there's
Speaker 3: a lot to do, and it's I don't think it's
Speaker 3: ever I don't think it's ever like awkward or there's
Speaker 3: any sort of like weird jealousy. I think that we're
Speaker 3: all kind of rooting for each other the best set
Speaker 3: we can. And I think it would be silly to
Speaker 3: think that some of the opportunities that other people have
Speaker 3: I should have because I'm gonna get what comes what
Speaker 3: comes to me. I guess I.
Speaker 1: Know, but that I even said, Cody, I've been watching
Speaker 1: a lot of Below Deck med and I just want
Speaker 1: to know. I just want to know if there's ever
Speaker 1: any friction or if you all get hammered and like
Speaker 1: people say shit, like I picture the no, I picture
Speaker 1: the Peloton locker room like below deck med and I
Speaker 1: need to know if that's true.
Speaker 3: No, you know what, the only thing like, I A,
Speaker 3: we're not a drink We're not a lot of drinkers.
Speaker 3: I know. It's so annoying, like we don't drink a lot,
Speaker 3: so nobody's getting wasted and doing stupid shit. And in honesty,
Speaker 3: like the heat. The most heated drama I think is
Speaker 3: like the green room. And I will, like I get
Speaker 3: very upset with some of the girls because they go
Speaker 3: into these green rooms and they leave like there make up,
Speaker 3: their hair, they're clothes all in there, and they forget
Speaker 3: that like, hey, I need to go in there too.
Speaker 3: So it's like literally like it's like literal brothers and
Speaker 3: sisters fighting over who gets to use the bathroom that
Speaker 3: is the tea. I'm sorry, I know you want more.
Speaker 2: I know you wanted more.
Speaker 3: I know you want me like spilling drinks, like throwing
Speaker 3: a drink on tune day and me slapping Alex to
Speaker 3: song and me calling, you know, Kendall a bitch to
Speaker 3: her face like it's just not happening.
Speaker 1: And then Captain Sandy comes in and it's.
Speaker 3: Like and then and then they're like, hey, hey, hey, hey,
Speaker 3: we didn't get that on camera. Can we do it
Speaker 3: all again? And do that all again?
Speaker 1: Please?
Speaker 3: So unfortunately I don't have any hot tea for you.
Speaker 2: Hey, is that your real wallpaper behind you? Or are
Speaker 2: you in a hotel right now?
Speaker 3: It is my This is the is the guest room.
Speaker 3: I'm actually I have a friend staying with me from
Speaker 3: Brazil and he's this is an air mattress that I'm
Speaker 3: sitting on and this is the guest room. Yeah.
Speaker 2: I like your wallpaper. It's very It's Gucci.
Speaker 1: Is it occy wallpaper? Treating you well?
Speaker 3: Actually you know what? I got it for free because
Speaker 3: someone had it left over.
Speaker 1: So I was like, you found some Gucci wallpaper.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I was listening to you the other day and you
Speaker 1: were and you were doing you were you were spinning
Speaker 1: to that song to the left, to the left, and
Speaker 1: then and you and you said something that made me
Speaker 1: laugh so hard. You go, uh, she goes, I could
Speaker 1: have another you in a minute. But what's the lyric?
Speaker 1: I forgot? Matter of fact, he'll be here, That was
Speaker 1: the lyric.
Speaker 3: He'll be here in a minute.
Speaker 1: You go, I can't have a man here in a minute.
Speaker 1: It's called Grinder, and then you go, I was laughing
Speaker 1: so hard, you go, I might have to lower my standards,
Speaker 1: but he'd be here in a minute, exactly.
Speaker 3: Listen, all of us have have phones, access to quick
Speaker 3: and easy hookups if we want it. But I don't
Speaker 3: know if you've ever been on some of these apps.
Speaker 1: But men more than other dude, I mean sorry, gay
Speaker 1: men more than more than straight men, because.
Speaker 3: We're wrees, we're sluts, we're okay.
Speaker 1: Donald and I are not Donald and I are not
Speaker 1: on Grinder yet. But it seems to me like you're
Speaker 1: not really exaggerating, like a man could be there in
Speaker 1: like three minutes.
Speaker 3: Literally. It might. It might be a certain caliber of
Speaker 3: a certain man. But you know, like if I'm trying
Speaker 3: to get my dick wet and I don't have high
Speaker 3: standards and we can make it happen pretty.
Speaker 1: Quickly a gay man, we might have to cut this,
Speaker 1: Joelle Jewel, Okay, Joell, you'll tell me if we need
Speaker 1: to cut this.
Speaker 3: Because they because you'll get canceled or I will No.
Speaker 1: You're not going to cancel it. Just this might be
Speaker 1: too risque even for our show. But a gay friend
Speaker 1: of mine told me that that certain gay men will
Speaker 1: post on grinder. I will be receiving loads between these hours.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, that's so, that's what we call them the
Speaker 3: community a pump and dump?
Speaker 1: Really, what's a pump and dump?
Speaker 6: So?
Speaker 1: Uh, this show just got good good.
Speaker 2: We just turned.
Speaker 1: My god, what's a pumping? Because Donald and I are unfamiliar.
Speaker 3: I have never partaken in this. No judgment, no judgment,
Speaker 3: no judge. I don't try to judge anybody's sexual desires
Speaker 3: nor what they're We've learned.
Speaker 2: We've learned a lot from Joel. She's told us this
Speaker 2: is all life is life.
Speaker 3: Joel's going to pumping ups.
Speaker 1: Okay, so no, Joel doesn't pumping up. I don't think
Speaker 1: you're pumping dump. No judgment.
Speaker 2: If you do no judgments over here, will you explain.
Speaker 1: To our audience that is not familiar? What is?
Speaker 3: This is so nasty just saying it like it's also
Speaker 3: like when you describe these sort of things, this is
Speaker 3: this is that's why they're trying to take away our rights.
Speaker 3: This is why we couldn't get married for so damn
Speaker 3: long because we're out here.
Speaker 1: Actually, so's say a.
Speaker 3: Particular person wants to be the receipt. I'm try put
Speaker 3: these in straight terms. Wants to be the receiver. So
Speaker 3: the bottom and they will maybe in fact, they will
Speaker 3: rent a hotel room or they will be giving strangers
Speaker 3: on the internet their address. So then said strangers will
Speaker 3: show up to said hotel room or home and just
Speaker 3: the bottom will be there ready to receive any trade
Speaker 3: of sex. And as you said before loads, So therefore
Speaker 3: that is the pump and dump. So from like one
Speaker 3: to three, I'm going to be at this hotel and
Speaker 3: you come in, you drop your drawers, you have sex
Speaker 3: with me, and you leave.
Speaker 1: But wait, the same friend told me that sometimes the
Speaker 1: man the recipient, you know, like the hash deck. I
Speaker 1: have to teach this to all, but that they will
Speaker 1: post market. Let me let me tell you, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: let me tell them, and then you tell me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Donald, I don't know if I told you this ship.
Speaker 1: My friend told me that they on the one guy
Speaker 1: had on his butt cheek the like you know, the
Speaker 1: four and then you do the hash across. He had
Speaker 1: with the loads. He had asked the men to create
Speaker 1: lines and then a hash through for the through the
Speaker 1: fifth load.
Speaker 6: I'm horrified, who are you talking to.
Speaker 3: That you were talking about. Listen, you're not You're not wrong.
Speaker 1: My friend wasn't participating. He was telling me as a
Speaker 1: straight man. You probably don't know this is a thing
Speaker 1: on Grinder, But this is a thing on Grinder.
Speaker 3: It is it is?
Speaker 2: Are there things like this on other dating sites?
Speaker 1: Is this is Donald wants to know if this is
Speaker 1: available on Tinder?
Speaker 2: I'm man, so I don't get to You're just doing research.
Speaker 2: I would like to do some research. Is this like everywhere?
Speaker 2: Is this? How is this? How is this what dating
Speaker 2: sites are? Now?
Speaker 1: I think this is I think this is a particularly
Speaker 1: this is not as much of a hetero thing as far.
Speaker 3: It's just that the gays are like really unhinged and
Speaker 3: just like we are out here in these streets doing
Speaker 3: whatever we want. So you know, there's a little bit more.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to call it promiscuity because that's
Speaker 3: not what it is. It's just you know, sexual liberation
Speaker 3: and freedom. So like, you know, that's what some people
Speaker 3: are into, and more power to them as long as
Speaker 3: it's consensual. Adults, like you know, live your life. That's
Speaker 3: in a mind damn business. But yeah, all of all
Speaker 3: of what you're saying is true. And I would say,
Speaker 3: if you live in a major metropolitan city, I don't
Speaker 3: I don't think it would be hard for you to
Speaker 3: find said activity.
Speaker 1: Donald, Do you ever want to say announce that you're
Speaker 1: open to receive loads.
Speaker 2: I mean, first of all, I don't mind saying I'm
Speaker 2: open to receive loads my wife. My wife will be like, yo, dude,
Speaker 2: all these people at the house right, what the fuck
Speaker 2: is called.
Speaker 1: The doorbell rings? In case, he's like, babe, is it
Speaker 1: the door? Oh that's my first load. I'ney just send
Speaker 1: them upstairs, send them to the closet.
Speaker 2: Oh lord, let's tack a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. All right,
Speaker 1: we'll get back on track.
Speaker 3: Here.
Speaker 1: Your favorite artist that you did you talk about the most,
Speaker 1: it seems to me, is Brittany. Is that true? Of course, Yes,
Speaker 1: she's your favorite?
Speaker 3: Yeah, uh yeah, I mean I've I think I'm just like,
Speaker 3: there's such a nostalgic attachment that I have to her.
Speaker 3: She she provided such amazing songs, performances looks throughout the
Speaker 3: height of my like adolescence. And if I would say
Speaker 3: the height of like pop culture, like, you can't you
Speaker 3: can't get better than that? Like the early two thousands
Speaker 3: of pop culture. T R like, yeah, I just have
Speaker 3: so many memories and you know music.
Speaker 2: I remember watching Brittany and being like, damn, she's so young.
Speaker 2: And then when she when Justin and her were dating
Speaker 2: and freaking, she became like and she came out with
Speaker 2: the snake and did I'm a slave for you. I remember,
Speaker 2: and Jamie Fox looked at Justin Timberlake on television and said,
Speaker 2: she bad. I remember. I just remember the you know,
Speaker 2: the little that happens when you know.
Speaker 1: You see somebody got a peep shift.
Speaker 2: I had a peep shift.
Speaker 3: You know. She went from sort of innocent girl to like, okay,
Speaker 3: like hot sex symbol.
Speaker 2: You know, well yeah, because you know you can say
Speaker 2: what you want about Oops, I did it again and
Speaker 2: hit me baby one more time. But that was like
Speaker 2: posing kind of. But when she hit that shit, that
Speaker 2: was when it was like I'm doing oh yeah, right exactly.
Speaker 3: I mean, yeah, I think that we have a lot
Speaker 3: in common.
Speaker 2: Cody.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, did you see her live ever a? Cody?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see. I saw the Britney Spears. I saw
Speaker 3: her first tour and then I saw I don't think
Speaker 3: I saw anything after that until the Circus Tour, which
Speaker 3: I saw twice, the Femptale tour, and then the Vegas show.
Speaker 1: M So what about Beyonce? You also are a huge
Speaker 1: Beyonce thing.
Speaker 3: Guys, if you have not, if you're not purchased tickets
Speaker 3: to go see the Renaissance Sance World Tour, you are
Speaker 3: missing out on a once in a lifetime thing to see.
Speaker 1: Look at Joelle's face right now.
Speaker 3: I saw and I was so blown away that I
Speaker 3: had to see it again. And I saw this Saturday
Speaker 3: at MetLife and it's just like it is just like
Speaker 3: a singular thing to be alive in this time where
Speaker 3: like you get to see a woman that has made
Speaker 3: a twenty five year career an entire like an immense
Speaker 3: catalog of songs, and also just like the impact that
Speaker 3: she's had on like pop culture, and turn that into
Speaker 3: a two hour show that is immaculately designed, immaculately designed.
Speaker 3: It is like, I don't even want to compare it
Speaker 3: to seeing Michael Jackson, but it's the only thing that
Speaker 3: I could compare it to. Like you, just if you
Speaker 3: don't go see this, you're missing out on like a
Speaker 3: once in a lifetime.
Speaker 1: Opportunity, Joelle, what are your thoughts? They see you having
Speaker 1: a spiritual moment.
Speaker 4: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: Okay, So seeing her on her birthday in LA and
Speaker 6: I'm dying Like Cody, I think twice is going at least.
Speaker 6: So I'm looking at New Orleans, which is where she's
Speaker 6: doing her last stop. Every time I see video, it's
Speaker 6: just a little bit better than the last show. The
Speaker 6: way she just continues to improve through.
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
Speaker 6: So I've never like had Beyonce money before. So this
Speaker 6: is my first Beyonce show. So I'm a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'm happy for you that you've got Beyonce ticket money. Now,
Speaker 1: I love that for you me too.
Speaker 6: I took a week off from where second mentally and
Speaker 6: spiritually prepair my little person coming.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be amazing.
Speaker 1: We did our live show. We made you miss somebody
Speaker 1: else who did we make you miss by accident?
Speaker 6: Megan the Stallion and Mariah Carey. They were doing Pride
Speaker 6: in l A.
Speaker 3: Oh they pulled you away from that.
Speaker 6: Yes, it was a sacrifice. It it's gonna He'll come
Speaker 6: back to me.
Speaker 3: I think, did you see it?
Speaker 1: Did y'all see Cardi? Did you see Cardi? B through
Speaker 1: the mic at someone's head.
Speaker 3: That was amazing, rightfully, so would throw at your face?
Speaker 2: You know, she don't know.
Speaker 3: You don't know.
Speaker 2: She don't even know if that was water or not
Speaker 2: too though. Man, she just got some ship thrown on her. Man,
Speaker 2: that could have been seen, That could have been anything.
Speaker 3: Man, did you see Carti's hair? You don't throw water
Speaker 3: hair the music going up?
Speaker 6: Like, I don't know, I would throw anything at Cardi.
Speaker 6: Her aim is perfect.
Speaker 2: Who knows? She doesn't miss? Okay, she hit?
Speaker 1: Did she hit her?
Speaker 6: She hit the person, pulled back, made eye contact and
Speaker 6: launched like Cardi b is a fighter.
Speaker 3: It's a dumb move. I can't understand why you would
Speaker 3: do it all.
Speaker 1: Right now, explain to me. I know the track didn't
Speaker 1: it wasn't affected at all, and I understand that she
Speaker 1: may have been speaking over it or wrapping over it.
Speaker 1: But do people care? Nobody cares.
Speaker 2: Nobody cares.
Speaker 3: That's not what she was not singing live.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're gonna tell me. Nobody cares. Nobody cares. Donald
Speaker 1: and I have a date to see Taylor Swift this week.
Speaker 1: We're very excited you got the tickets.
Speaker 3: We did not talk about you guys.
Speaker 2: Taylor Swift. Yet somebody's not somebody's clowning. Somebody's clowning.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you want to open this campt.
Speaker 2: No, No, I want to do it. I want to
Speaker 2: do it.
Speaker 3: It's not a good thing. I get in trouble.
Speaker 1: No, Cody, I don't want you to talk negatively about Swift.
Speaker 1: I really like her.
Speaker 3: Okay, and Donald, I'm so happy that she brings you joy.
Speaker 3: I'm so happy, dying to talk shit. No, see this show,
Speaker 3: and I am just I can't wait for you to
Speaker 3: feel the joy that you want to feel.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, you such got it. Donald, you are
Speaker 1: my dates, so you better be open to receiving.
Speaker 3: It's just you two.
Speaker 2: Yeah gay, Yeah, it's a little gay, maybe a little gay.
Speaker 6: But Disneyland where they're like holding hands and skipping through Disneyland, that's.
Speaker 7: No.
Speaker 1: We must I must give a shout out. We got
Speaker 1: and we could not get tickets, and we have a
Speaker 1: friend at who invited us to the cost Egos box.
Speaker 1: That's how we managed to get in because we couldn't
Speaker 1: get tickets, like everybody can't get tickets.
Speaker 3: So I mean, I mean even for the second show.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to tell you how much I
Speaker 3: paid for the Beyonce tickets and the second show I
Speaker 3: paid I paid. I paid stub Hub money for floor.
Speaker 1: Seats, and that's like, you know, what did you pay?
Speaker 3: I stand by this statement. I still didn't even pay enough.
Speaker 3: I still didn't pay enough.
Speaker 2: You know, essent, we like this when we were kids.
Speaker 2: I saw Michael Jackson when I was a kid, I
Speaker 2: saw new Addition Bell, Bib Devaux, I saw all of
Speaker 2: these freaking I went to a lot of big concerts
Speaker 2: when I was a kid, and I sat really close
Speaker 2: in these stadiums and was able to see everything. I
Speaker 2: was never on the floor. But you know, I can't
Speaker 2: imagine spending ten grand, fifteen grand on tickets. Okay, thank god?
Speaker 2: All right? Cool.
Speaker 1: Oh when you said floor seed stub Hub money, I
Speaker 1: thought you were talking about ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3: I mean, listen, they were they were floor seats. They
Speaker 3: weren't the closest floor seats. I was probably at at
Speaker 3: my closest proximity to Beyonce, maybe twenty feet. So that's good,
Speaker 3: that's amazing twenty feet. But yeah, I'm not spending There's
Speaker 3: no there's there's there's there is a limit there's a limit.
Speaker 3: And that's actually in all honestly why I went in
Speaker 3: Europe for the first time because the seats in Paris
Speaker 3: were like a few hundred bucks and they were on
Speaker 3: the floor at General Like by the time you pay
Speaker 3: for the flight and the ticket, you could get that
Speaker 3: in the US. So you get a trip to Paris
Speaker 3: and a Beyonce concert.
Speaker 2: Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back after these fine words. Listen, before
Speaker 1: we wrap up, I wanted to ask, we want to
Speaker 1: promote your book, by the way, let's give a shout out.
Speaker 3: Yes, let's plug.
Speaker 1: Your book is XO XO Cody, An opinionated homosexuals Guide
Speaker 1: to self, love, relationships, and tactful pettiness.
Speaker 3: Oh thank god, you got it right. I know you're
Speaker 3: but fans, no, I remember it. I'm actually I'm always
Speaker 3: like nervous when I'm gonna that's a long ass that
Speaker 3: I don't fuck up the title. I'm just like, don't
Speaker 3: FuG it up, don't FuG it out.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about it. Shamelessly plug yourself,
Speaker 1: but tell us a little bit about what the gist
Speaker 1: of the vibe is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, well, I'm excited that it comes out
Speaker 3: comes out September twelfth, so pre order if you can.
Speaker 3: It is a memoir slash kind of like life and
Speaker 3: dating advice. If you are familiar with my class at Pelton,
Speaker 3: we do x X Cody, which is like a fun
Speaker 3: class where writers send in questions to me about self love,
Speaker 3: relationships and we talk about pop culture and that. So
Speaker 3: I kind of took that idea from the ride and
Speaker 3: made it into a book. And it's like mostly just
Speaker 3: about like, you know, self love, even in the in
Speaker 3: the realm of dating, like loving yourself before you put
Speaker 3: yourself out there, you know, like asking for more money,
Speaker 3: loving yourself, dating yourself. You know, just like what it
Speaker 3: means to just really like take all the things that
Speaker 3: I've learned in life and apply it to being the
Speaker 3: best version of yourself.
Speaker 1: And you really did You've come such a long way.
Speaker 1: I mean, you did work at McDonald's, didn't you not?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, and that's that's part of the storytelling
Speaker 3: there is like I feel like I've told these like
Speaker 3: really condensed versions of some of the really impactful things
Speaker 3: in my life. So it's been a privilege to kind
Speaker 3: of like give it in more detail. Yeah, it's it's
Speaker 3: crazy like I grew up. Listen, I grew up single parent,
Speaker 3: only child, broke as fuck in in North Carolina, like
Speaker 3: food stamp poor, getting evicted, poor, like all this sort
Speaker 3: of stuff. So I sometimes look back in my life
Speaker 3: and I'm just like, how how the fuck did I?
Speaker 3: How did I get here? How did I get here?
Speaker 3: In front of the Gucci.
Speaker 1: Wallpaper, the book title could have been from McDonald's to
Speaker 1: Gucci Wallpaper, no doubt, we go, Why is the shake
Speaker 1: machine always broken?
Speaker 2: What's going on?
Speaker 1: What's going on?
Speaker 3: Let's get to the real honesty. I think it's because,
Speaker 3: you know, if you're a McDonald's employee and it's the
Speaker 3: end of the night, like I'm trying to clean that
Speaker 3: fucking machine before I get off my ship, and if
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get out early, you know, if broken's
Speaker 3: it at ten and we don't shut down the ice
Speaker 3: cream machine until nine forty five, I'm not trying to
Speaker 3: stick around from fifteen to twenty extra minutes because this
Speaker 3: bitch wants an oreo mcflir say that the fucking machine
Speaker 3: is broken, and guess what, I'm good, I'm gonna pull
Speaker 3: up to the drive through them, say one Orio mcflurry
Speaker 3: and the person that went knows to be like, I'm sorry, sir,
Speaker 3: the machine is broken, and I'm gonna get pissed off
Speaker 3: and I'm gonna drive off. I'm good. So the employee
Speaker 3: is winning, you know, right right?
Speaker 2: I heard that there's quite a few McDonald's workers right
Speaker 2: now that are like, thank you, Cody.
Speaker 1: So what Cody's just told us everyone is that the
Speaker 1: machine is never actually broken.
Speaker 2: It's just that.
Speaker 1: Look, they don't want to deal with that shit.
Speaker 2: Motherfucker's got lives, yo.
Speaker 1: They want to get home.
Speaker 3: I don't know if you've ever worked a shift job
Speaker 3: such as McDonald's. You want to get out as soon
Speaker 3: as you fucking can. You want to cuck out.
Speaker 1: You don't want your you.
Speaker 3: Don't want your manager asking, hey, you know Tom's a
Speaker 3: little bit late, can you stay thirty bits? No, bitch,
Speaker 3: that's not my problem, that's not my probe. You're you're
Speaker 3: paying me eight fifty an hour. I don't care about Tom.
Speaker 3: I want to go home and play Xbox. Okay, thank you?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 2: What that knows?
Speaker 1: Well, you're very very funny man, and we're very last
Speaker 1: thing I want to ask you for our audience. So
Speaker 1: many of our audience don't have a Peloton, Can you
Speaker 1: just maybe give some a little bit of wisdom as
Speaker 1: to motivating yourself to to actually exercise. Exercise for me
Speaker 1: has been life changing for more than even more my
Speaker 1: physical health and for my mental health. It really has
Speaker 1: become a part of keeping myself feeling better about myself.
Speaker 1: And I wondered if, as a as a famous trainer,
Speaker 1: if you have any words of wisdom for motivating people
Speaker 1: to take action and do a little something.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I think that's well. First of all, I'm going
Speaker 3: to debunk that the Peloton app is free for like
Speaker 3: the first month, and there's a free version of the app,
Speaker 3: so you can jump into that. That being said, as
Speaker 3: far as motivation, and yeah, I think that a relationship
Speaker 3: with your body and movement is really good for your
Speaker 3: overall being, not just looking a certain way, but like
Speaker 3: your mental health and believing that you can do hard things.
Speaker 3: I know it sounds really silly, but when you like
Speaker 3: conquer a twenty minute bike ride and you're like, Wow,
Speaker 3: I didn't want to do that, but I did it
Speaker 3: and I feel great, it is a reminder that, like
Speaker 3: when you get set a challenge at work or or
Speaker 3: pushback in life that you're like, Hey, I things might
Speaker 3: be scary or they might be hard, but if I
Speaker 3: put my mind to it, I absolutely can accomplish it.
Speaker 3: And I think it's a constant reminder of that. And
Speaker 3: also I think being uncomfortable and being put in uncomfortable
Speaker 3: situations is good for us, you know, I think when
Speaker 3: we run away from feeling. I think when we feel uncomfortable,
Speaker 3: or we feel sad, or we feel angry, or we
Speaker 3: feel you know, unmotivated, we can really sit in that.
Speaker 3: We can either sit in that and figure it out,
Speaker 3: or we can go distract ourselves and get away from
Speaker 3: it quickly. And I think sitting in those uncomfortable situations
Speaker 3: is really good for us physically, mentally, emotionally, and moving
Speaker 3: our bodies and working out is a practice of that
Speaker 3: in itself.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I feel that. Man. Sometimes I'm just down, I'm not
Speaker 1: in a good headspace, and I spend for thirty minutes
Speaker 1: and I get off the bike and I feel great.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and then you like and then you're like, you've
Speaker 3: been motivated to do other shit that you didn't want
Speaker 3: to do.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Absolutely, Well, thank you so much for your time, dude.
Speaker 1: We really are big fans of yours and you make
Speaker 1: us laugh and keep doing what you do because you're
Speaker 1: making a big difference in a lot of people's lives.
Speaker 3: Thank you. I appreciate it. And thank you for having
Speaker 3: me on.
Speaker 2: Thank you for being on.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so awesome.
Speaker 2: Wait can we just before we wrap up? Do one
Speaker 2: of my fucking heroes passed away? And I just wanted
Speaker 2: to give a shout out to like, yo man and
Speaker 2: I and and and it's gonna make and I don't
Speaker 2: want to get emotional about it, and because that's the
Speaker 2: last thing I want to do in front of you guys,
Speaker 2: but if you could just I mean, I just remember
Speaker 2: junior high school, my buddy Adam Smart, shout out Adam
Speaker 2: Smart and uh Libra whose dad was on Pee Wee's playhouse,
Speaker 2: telling me, Yo, you gotta watch this guy and me
Speaker 2: being like yeah, whatever, and Adam Smart for for one
Speaker 2: of the talent shows him and this guy did the
Speaker 2: entire scene of Pee Wee coming out of his house
Speaker 2: with the bike and the guy wanting to ride on
Speaker 2: the bike and him saying him saying uh no, and
Speaker 2: then I know you are but what am I? And
Speaker 2: everything from Big Adventure from Pee Wee's Big Adventure, and
Speaker 2: I you know, that stuck with me and my freshman
Speaker 2: year in high school, I finally watched the movie and
Speaker 2: I couldn't believe it took me so long to find
Speaker 2: this guy because it was me in a lot of ways.
Speaker 2: It was like this guy who was just a little
Speaker 2: bit immature but was witty and smart, had and had
Speaker 2: a great sense of humor. And you know when they
Speaker 2: say be careful when you meet your idols, when I
Speaker 2: met him, he was. He was very mean to me,
Speaker 2: and he went out of his way the next time
Speaker 2: I met him and every time after to apologize and
Speaker 2: tell me that he was in a He was a
Speaker 2: he was in a bad space that day. And I
Speaker 2: got to work with him like two or three times
Speaker 2: after that. Just meeting him and that we met you
Speaker 2: were with me. It was me you and Sarah and
Speaker 2: I think we were on our way to New York.
Speaker 1: And emotional, man.
Speaker 2: Was Paul Rubers. Man, you made a really big impact
Speaker 2: on my life.
Speaker 1: You really getting emotional.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you are a legend and you will be missed.
Speaker 1: Oh Donald, that's very sweet. I loved him too.
Speaker 3: Man.
Speaker 1: I grew up watching Pee Wee's Playhouse, and then when
Speaker 1: I saw the movie, I just thought he was so
Speaker 1: uniquely funny and original and there was nobody like him,
Speaker 1: like nobody was doing what he was doing. And then
Speaker 1: that combined with Tim Burton's direction, you know, pee Wee's
Speaker 1: Big Adventure was just like we had never seen anything
Speaker 1: like it. It was just so different. It was so different,
Speaker 1: the combo of Tim Burton's style with pee Wee's humor.
Speaker 1: And Paul was a wonderful person by the way. I
Speaker 1: met him a few times, like Donald, and every day
Speaker 1: on my birthday he would send me like funny gifts,
Speaker 1: birthday gifts, little memes and stuff, and they were all
Speaker 1: just sweet sort of they weren't. They were just like
Speaker 1: sweet little birthday messages. And that's the kind of he was.
Speaker 1: He was. Everybody loved him. Everybody in town that knew
Speaker 1: him loved him.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, I just couldn't put You know, usually
Speaker 2: when somebody, when somebody brushes you off, that's usually it
Speaker 2: and you never really hear from them, you never really hear.
Speaker 2: But he went, I mean just to I don't know, man,
Speaker 2: Like he remembered me, he remembered where we were when
Speaker 2: it happened. He remembered what he was going through and
Speaker 2: he apologized. It just made me feel so good, you
Speaker 2: know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I remember saving up for cherry. Remember they I had
Speaker 1: a peep First of all, I had the pewee doll
Speaker 1: that you pulled the string and it would says yeah.
Speaker 1: And then after a while I used it someone the
Speaker 1: soundbox broke so it would be really sped up and
Speaker 1: you couldn't understand shit. But then I had the cherry
Speaker 1: for those you know the show was his talking green chair,
Speaker 1: and I remember saving up as a kid to go
Speaker 1: to the Livingstone Mall to buy cherry so I could
Speaker 1: put my peewee doll in the cherry chair. Anyway, So
Speaker 1: rest in peace to Paul who who was a wonderful
Speaker 1: performer and a very nice person. And thank you to
Speaker 1: Cody for providing lots of laughter. And that's it. This
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Speaker 1: now we Joelle has a pitch from one of our
Speaker 1: listeners for a film that we should make. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: go Joel.
Speaker 7: Hello, Donald and Zach, Joel and Danel.
Speaker 3: My name is Will.
Speaker 7: I live in London in the UK, though I'm originally
Speaker 7: from Edinburgh in Scotland, and today I am pitching a
Speaker 7: comedy series with you, Donald and Zack playing fictionalized versions
Speaker 7: of yourselves as you finally take fake doctors, real friends
Speaker 7: on the road and tour the podcast series around Europe.
Speaker 7: It would be totally similar to Curby Your Enthusiasm or
Speaker 7: The Trip if you're familiar with that British comedy starring
Speaker 7: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. Of course, you find success
Speaker 7: with the podcast tour. It's everything you guys dreamed it
Speaker 7: would be, but touring and selling out spectacular venues such
Speaker 7: as the O two Arena in London, the Coliseum in
Speaker 7: Rome and a Wee Boffy in the Highlands. Well, it
Speaker 7: takes its toll on your multi layered, loving, sometimes flowed
Speaker 7: relationship in the series and of your bromance Never Questioned
Speaker 7: develops as well as during the podcast. You both have
Speaker 7: your own side hustles going on. Donald played by Donald Faison,
Speaker 7: is desperate to get onto one of the Star Wars
Speaker 7: or Marvel series that's filmed here in the UK. In
Speaker 7: one scene, Donald literally begs on his knees for a
Speaker 7: role outside the gates of Pinewood Studios, while Zach, played
Speaker 7: by Zach Brath, lands himself his dream role and does
Speaker 7: a one of performance playing Jean Valjean in the West
Speaker 7: End production of Lay Miss.
Speaker 1: I don't think I'd get it.
Speaker 7: However, on the night, Zach gets so excited and he's
Speaker 7: so overcome with emotion that he starts singing everyone else's
Speaker 7: parts over them. So as the tour comes to an end,
Speaker 7: our heroes ask themselves whether it was really at success.
Speaker 7: They both lost out on their dream roles and more importantly,
Speaker 7: their most valued relationship with each other along the way
Speaker 7: to be continued. I actually sent this pitch to you
Speaker 7: guys way back in summer twenty twenty when I first
Speaker 7: emailed over some questions, so it's been flowing around my
Speaker 7: head for a few years now. I just want to
Speaker 7: add that I work as a script editor in TV
Speaker 7: drama Developments, So if you want, I could come on
Speaker 7: board to storyboard and script episodes for free. I might
Speaker 7: be available.
Speaker 1: Let's slow down.
Speaker 7: I hope you enjoy the pitch. Lastly, I just want
Speaker 7: to add that I love this podcast. And I love
Speaker 7: getting to hang out with the four of you every week.
Speaker 7: Take care and speak saying Wye.
Speaker 2: First of all, that would never happen, William our bond
Speaker 2: is too tight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Cody thought we were gay.
Speaker 2: It's not gonna happen, William.
Speaker 1: Well, I believe that Donald would be on his knees
Speaker 1: outside Pinewood Studient begging to get in.
Speaker 2: I've worked at Pinewood Studios. I would not be on
Speaker 2: my knees outside of Pinewood Studio.
Speaker 1: What if George Lucas, much like the Emperor, was like,
Speaker 1: get on your knees, Donald, face on, that was Vader.
Speaker 3: Sorry, definitely get on your.
Speaker 2: Knees, Donald, that's definitely Vader, and show.
Speaker 1: Me that you're worthy of a part in my creation.
Speaker 2: Are you saying I have to perform for Latio George
Speaker 2: Lucas to get into Star Wars.
Speaker 1: I didn't mean that you made that ship up. I
Speaker 1: just meant he was making it on your knees to
Speaker 1: be like to bow down.
Speaker 2: To him, bow down to George. I have no problem
Speaker 2: bowing down to George Lucas.
Speaker 1: Okay, So if George was like, you can have a pastry,
Speaker 1: you can be one of Lando's friends in the new series.
Speaker 2: Then we'd have to contact Donald Glover and I'd have
Speaker 2: to convince Donald Glover that too.
Speaker 1: So I heard they're making that and that they just
Speaker 1: they fired the writer or something, and their there that
Speaker 1: he and his brother are writing the new Lando series.
Speaker 2: All I know is I didn't get a telephone call,
Speaker 2: so yes, yes, yet And everybody knows who my favorite
Speaker 2: star wars.
Speaker 1: Camp But you could be Lando's older brother, bando.
Speaker 3: What do you play Lando's dad?
Speaker 1: WHOA, he's not older than He's not Donald Glover's dad.
Speaker 3: Prosthetics instead old man.
Speaker 2: I'm still holding out for Ahska. How about that?
Speaker 3: Bro? I can't even talk about it.
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Speaker 1: Now listen, Thank you for your pitch, William, very clever.
Speaker 1: You know, Donald and I are talking about maybe documenting
Speaker 1: our tour as some sort of docuseries perhaps, but I
Speaker 1: don't think that we'll go the full curb your enthusiasm
Speaker 1: fake version of our of our real lives. I don't
Speaker 1: think that's our our style.
Speaker 2: I love the fact that we're selling out like the Colosseum.
Speaker 1: And yeah, imagine that we sell out the Colosseum. That'd
Speaker 1: be an O two arena.
Speaker 2: I mean, we sell the Colosseum, We're like legendary. That's
Speaker 2: straight up. I mean, we might as well call ourselves gladiators.
Speaker 1: I didn't like when Cody was I didn't like when
Speaker 1: Cody was being about to be negative about our date
Speaker 1: for Thursday night.
Speaker 2: Listen, Bud.
Speaker 1: He doesn't understand that. He doesn't understand our love of
Speaker 1: Tea Swift.
Speaker 2: He doesn't know the love that we have for Tea
Speaker 2: Swift because it's a hard thing to understand, you know
Speaker 2: what I mean, it's hard to understand.
Speaker 1: Do you think we're going to be the only straight
Speaker 1: men there that came.
Speaker 2: I think we're going to be the only men over
Speaker 2: twenty five at this concert.
Speaker 1: To be that's not true. My question is this, Are
Speaker 1: we going to be the only men who are straight
Speaker 1: who came together alone?
Speaker 6: No?
Speaker 1: Probably, Well your thoughts.
Speaker 2: Definitely, I'm having the right picture.
Speaker 6: Who up to the other street guy friends were like,
Speaker 6: fuck yeah Teeth Swift, But that's what makes you guys special,
Speaker 6: what makes a special.
Speaker 2: Though, we're running into this motherfucker leg so it's gonna
Speaker 2: be forever.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna cry, just I's gonna.
Speaker 2: Go down in face. You can tell me when it's over.
Speaker 2: I'm gonna look at you and we're gonna smile at
Speaker 2: this part. Got along with Stuve ex lovers. We're gonna smile.
Speaker 2: They'll tell you I'm insane.
Speaker 1: I might not. I won't like suddenly grab your hand,
Speaker 1: but if I do, just show it.
Speaker 2: Away and now write your name.
Speaker 1: All right, that's our show, Everyboddy, we love you. Count
Speaker 1: us out on.
Speaker 2: Top six seven.
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Speaker 2: Said, he's a story natural should know.
Speaker 4: So gander around you here, our gander around you here,
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Speaker 2: And and no mm hmmm