Latest / Life Will Be the Death of Me with Chelsea Handler / Men Found Useless with Cody Rigsby
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Hi, Catherine.
- 0:01Speaker 2: Hello, Hello Chelsea Handler. My name is Chelsea Handler.
- 0:05Speaker 1: H A and D L E R. Hey.
- 0:07Speaker 3: Sure is how are you doing?
- 0:08Speaker 2: I'm ready, I'm ready. I'm ready for our show. I
- 0:10Speaker 2: have the Critics' Choice Awards tomorrow night. Everyone can watch
- 0:13Speaker 2: those on E What else do oh? I have exciting
- 0:16Speaker 2: new lemonade coming out, you guys. I partnered with a
- 0:18Speaker 2: lemonade brand called Well, a vodka brand, well a boozy
- 0:21Speaker 2: brand called Owls Brew.
- 0:23Speaker 1: They're female founders. So I found these two women.
- 0:25Speaker 2: You know, like, I've been trying to come up with
- 0:27Speaker 2: an alcoholic drink for many, many years, but the alcohol industry,
- 0:30Speaker 2: like many industries, is so male dominated that anytime I
- 0:33Speaker 2: would get far along in an idea, there would be
- 0:35Speaker 2: some massive hiccup and it just didn't work. And there
- 0:39Speaker 2: if you've read my book, well you haven't read my
- 0:41Speaker 2: book yet because my book is not out comes out
- 0:43Speaker 2: February twenty fifth, so pre order it. I'll have what
- 0:45Speaker 2: she's having. It comes out on my fiftieth birthday. Please
- 0:48Speaker 2: celebrate with me. Your gift to me is you pre
- 0:51Speaker 2: ordering my book. We want to encourage all of our
- 0:54Speaker 2: book club readers to have Boozy book clubs. So we
- 0:59Speaker 2: partnered with Owls Brew and we came up with three
- 1:02Speaker 2: vodka lemonades. There's Classic, which is yellow, then there's Pink,
- 1:06Speaker 2: and then there is Mint lemonade. So we have three
- 1:10Speaker 2: really smooth, non carbonated flavors. There are only one hundred
- 1:12Speaker 2: dollars a can, I'm sorry, one hundred calories a can,
- 1:18Speaker 2: and they're delicious.
- 1:19Speaker 1: I vouched for them.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I went in for the tastings and we found something
- 1:24Speaker 2: and it took almost no time. It is so much
- 1:27Speaker 2: nicer working with women. It literally took one tasting day.
- 1:30Speaker 2: I mean I had spent hours and days with these
- 1:33Speaker 2: other previous companies.
- 1:34Speaker 1: Many years ago. I had given up on this idea.
- 1:36Speaker 2: But when you do read my book, you will see
- 1:39Speaker 2: why there is a vodka lemonade tie in because I had.
- 1:44Speaker 2: I was an entrepreneur at a very young age, and
- 1:47Speaker 2: I open up a lemonade stand, and then when I
- 1:50Speaker 2: realized how much money I'd be making, I decided that
- 1:53Speaker 2: I needed a larger margin of profit and opened up
- 1:56Speaker 2: a hard lemonade stand.
- 1:58Speaker 1: Perfect. So now we are.
- 2:00Speaker 2: It is called Chelsea Handler's Vodka Lemonade from Owlsbrew.
- 2:04Speaker 1: They are hitting the shelves this month.
- 2:06Speaker 2: You can also order it online at the Owlsbrew dot com,
- 2:11Speaker 2: or you can go.
- 2:11Speaker 1: To your local stores.
- 2:12Speaker 2: They're at in lots of stores all across the country.
- 2:16Speaker 2: So yes, Owlsbrew, Chelsea Handler's vod Colemonade.
- 2:19Speaker 1: Please for your book clubs.
- 2:21Speaker 2: I mean obviously for your personal life and having a
- 2:23Speaker 2: great time too, but for your book clubs when you're
- 2:25Speaker 2: getting together to read my book. I really want you
- 2:28Speaker 2: guys to enjoy Owlsbrew with the book that's fasting, and
- 2:32Speaker 2: we're gonna have it all my book signings. We're gonna
- 2:34Speaker 2: have Owlsbrew.
- 2:35Speaker 1: Awesome.
- 2:36Speaker 4: You're never this excited about things.
- 2:38Speaker 5: I know.
- 2:39Speaker 2: I am excited because it's so delicious. My publicist, who
- 2:42Speaker 2: barely drinks it all, she's like, I love this. She
- 2:44Speaker 2: sends me a picture every night. She's like, I have
- 2:46Speaker 2: one every night before I go to bed. I'm like, okay, well,
- 2:48Speaker 2: you're a different kind of drinker than I am.
- 2:49Speaker 1: Fantastic.
- 2:50Speaker 2: Also, I'll be on Oh yeah, this is Critics Choice Award.
- 2:54Speaker 2: The Critics Choice Awards are tomorrow night. I don't know
- 2:56Speaker 2: what time for anything in the afternoon, seven eastern maybe, yes,
- 3:03Speaker 2: something like that, seven pm Eastern on the E Network.
- 3:06Speaker 1: Well, we have a fun guest this week.
- 3:07Speaker 2: You have a very fun guest today speaking of vodka
- 3:10Speaker 2: and Elton star Heloton star Cody Rigsby. He is our Well,
- 3:17Speaker 2: he's a Peloton guru, dancer, author and host of the
- 3:20Speaker 2: Tactful Pettiness podcast. Please welcome a person I've worked out
- 3:24Speaker 2: with several times.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Cody Rigsby.
- 3:27Speaker 6: Hi, Cody Rigsby, Chelsea b very honest, like, do you
- 3:30Speaker 6: have any idea who I am?
- 3:32Speaker 1: Yeah? I do?
- 3:33Speaker 3: You do?
- 3:33Speaker 1: Yeah? I do Peloton all the time.
- 3:35Speaker 3: Oh you do.
- 3:36Speaker 1: I appreciate the question, though You're not wrong to ask that,
- 3:38Speaker 1: and I would.
- 3:39Speaker 6: Have been offended. I adore you. I used to watch
- 3:42Speaker 6: your show in college with my boyfriend, and I've read
- 3:45Speaker 6: your book and I just and I love that you're
- 3:47Speaker 6: an advocate for not having kids, although I have turned
- 3:49Speaker 6: the corner on that. I think I might want them,
- 3:51Speaker 6: but I'm not sure.
- 3:52Speaker 1: Are you pregnant?
- 3:53Speaker 3: I will be in a few days.
- 3:55Speaker 2: Oh wow, that's very premonitionary, premonitionary.
- 4:00Speaker 1: Yeah, that really flew right out of my mouth. I
- 4:02Speaker 1: was unexpected.
- 4:04Speaker 2: That is premonitionary means like my friend has premonitionary dreams.
- 4:09Speaker 1: She dreams about some things and then they happen.
- 4:12Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 4:13Speaker 3: No, I just know that I'm going to fuck someone
- 4:15Speaker 3: this weekend.
- 4:16Speaker 1: So, but you can't get pregnant in the tush sheet, Cody.
- 4:19Speaker 1: I talk about this.
- 4:20Speaker 3: You know, the modern medicine. You never know.
- 4:22Speaker 2: I eventually, I feel like we're around the corner from
- 4:25Speaker 2: men being able to carry a baby. I know, we've
- 4:28Speaker 2: had a couple of male people carry babies that had
- 4:31Speaker 2: transitioned and kept transition from female to men, and then
- 4:34Speaker 2: they were able to carry a baby.
- 4:36Speaker 1: Because they still had their what do you need to
- 4:37Speaker 1: carry baby? A uterus?
- 4:39Speaker 3: Something like that.
- 4:40Speaker 2: But I feel like men are going to have become
- 4:44Speaker 2: obsolete if they don't come up with something, you know,
- 4:47Speaker 2: like straight straight men. Obviously gay men are fine, you know,
- 4:51Speaker 2: in my view, but straight men are going to have
- 4:53Speaker 2: to bring more to the table because people are getting
- 4:56Speaker 2: pregnant with or without them. You know, there are animals
- 4:58Speaker 2: that parthenogenesis. We've talked about this, where you can get pregnant.
- 5:01Speaker 2: It happened to an anaconda. She got pregnant without a male.
- 5:05Speaker 2: It happened to a condor, a bird. Yeah what, uh huh,
- 5:08Speaker 2: It's happened to like a lot of not a lot,
- 5:10Speaker 2: but it's definitely happened, and it happened twice in zoos,
- 5:13Speaker 2: so they had no exposure to the male species and
- 5:16Speaker 2: they were able to just fertilize their own eggs.
- 5:19Speaker 4: Jurassic perk here we come.
- 5:20Speaker 1: Yeah, haven't I talked to you about this? Okay?
- 5:23Speaker 2: So my friend Emily told me about this a long
- 5:26Speaker 2: time ago because I was doing it in my stand
- 5:28Speaker 2: up and then nobody really seemed to understand what the
- 5:30Speaker 2: fuck I was talking about. So then I just started
- 5:31Speaker 2: researching it more.
- 5:32Speaker 1: But yes, you can.
- 5:34Speaker 2: Like, we aren't a thousand years evolutionarily behind animals, So
- 5:37Speaker 2: if animals are procreating without the help of sperm, there
- 5:42Speaker 2: is a chance in the next one thousand years that
- 5:44Speaker 2: the human species might be there, especially if the straight
- 5:47Speaker 2: white men keep.
- 5:48Speaker 1: Acting like this. I love that, do you know what
- 5:50Speaker 1: I mean?
- 5:51Speaker 2: So anyway, back to your pregnancy congratulations in a few days,
- 5:56Speaker 2: I guess, how does it feel, Cody to become a
- 5:59Speaker 2: well known person as an exercise instructor? First and foremost, like,
- 6:04Speaker 2: you couldn't have planned that, right?
- 6:07Speaker 6: Uh?
- 6:07Speaker 3: No, not, I did not plan that at all.
- 6:10Speaker 6: You know, I've been working at Peloton for ten years now,
- 6:13Speaker 6: and I just thought it was gonna be a side
- 6:15Speaker 6: gig because I was tired of being a cater waiter
- 6:17Speaker 6: and working late nights at a fucking nightclub. And it's
- 6:21Speaker 6: absolutely changed my life and I'm so glad that I
- 6:23Speaker 6: get to like help people be their best self while
- 6:25Speaker 6: being a little silly gaybley and a bike.
- 6:28Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, I mean it's a real I mean, you
- 6:30Speaker 2: really do have a different spin on the class no pun.
- 6:33Speaker 1: Intended, pun intended.
- 6:34Speaker 2: You do, like have great energy, great vibes. You make
- 6:38Speaker 2: the classes fun. I know people talk about you and
- 6:40Speaker 2: how much they love taking your class.
- 6:42Speaker 1: So good for you. That's fucking awesomesbabe.
- 6:45Speaker 6: Yeah. Sometimes I'm like, you know, when I get into
- 6:48Speaker 6: maybe my politician era, maybe when I run for Senate,
- 6:50Speaker 6: Like it will definitely be on my campaign.
- 6:52Speaker 2: Speech in Texas. You should run in Texas first, I
- 6:55Speaker 2: think I.
- 6:56Speaker 6: Should, you know, that should be my goal. I'll just
- 6:58Speaker 6: be I think they called that a carpetbag. Is that
- 7:00Speaker 6: what they called her back in the.
- 7:01Speaker 1: Day, carpet bagger? But if that's if you go from
- 7:05Speaker 1: the north to the south, Yeah, maybe, so.
- 7:11Speaker 2: Let's look up carpet bagger. You guys, we need to
- 7:12Speaker 2: get to the bottom of this.
- 7:14Speaker 3: Oh okay, it is a person from the Northern States
- 7:17Speaker 3: who went to the South after the Civil War to
- 7:19Speaker 3: profit from the reconstruction, so.
- 7:22Speaker 1: Than what we saw.
- 7:24Speaker 2: But it's a double whammy because they went to go
- 7:26Speaker 2: profit from reconstruction. So they were like, oh, oh, I see,
- 7:31Speaker 2: I see.
- 7:31Speaker 1: So it's not that bad. It's bad on one level. Okay,
- 7:34Speaker 1: got it.
- 7:35Speaker 6: So when I go on my my my senate speech,
- 7:40Speaker 6: I'm definitely going to be like what only in America
- 7:42Speaker 6: could Like could a cycling instructor make it into the
- 7:47Speaker 6: pop cultures guys to be successful at.
- 7:49Speaker 2: Them and then become a senator in Texas? I mean,
- 7:52Speaker 2: I feel the trajectory for you, passionately.
- 7:55Speaker 1: All of a sudden.
- 7:56Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, someone's got to take out to a
- 7:59Speaker 3: cruise one of these day.
- 8:00Speaker 1: God God willing, When the hell is that gonna happen?
- 8:03Speaker 3: I don't unfortunately, not anytime soon.
- 8:05Speaker 2: Question for you, Cody, you grew up where you grew
- 8:07Speaker 2: up in the south right north North Carolina.
- 8:09Speaker 6: Yeah, so I was born in Los Angeles. I moved
- 8:11Speaker 6: to North Carolina and when I was eight by yourself.
- 8:13Speaker 1: You moved by yourself at eight.
- 8:15Speaker 3: Just me, I got in a car and drove through.
- 8:16Speaker 6: Now, me and my mom and like our three cats
- 8:18Speaker 6: and two dogs in a beat up Chrysler just packed
- 8:21Speaker 6: it across the country and headed to North Carolina.
- 8:23Speaker 1: And how was that transition?
- 8:25Speaker 3: I definitely cried when we arrived there.
- 8:26Speaker 6: There was no sidewalks where I could roller blade, and
- 8:28Speaker 6: then you know, the tons of homophobia and racism that's
- 8:34Speaker 6: in the South didn't settle well with my soul. So
- 8:36Speaker 6: it was for an interesting upbringing.
- 8:39Speaker 2: Yeah, I bet that wasn't a nice transition. It's not
- 8:41Speaker 2: fun to go to the South once you've been exposed
- 8:43Speaker 2: to the North.
- 8:45Speaker 6: Well, in all honesty, though, because I was in Los Angeles,
- 8:48Speaker 6: I like, looking back in retrospect, I am grateful that
- 8:50Speaker 6: I grew up in North Carolina. I think it would
- 8:51Speaker 6: have been It's a simpler sort of life besides the
- 8:55Speaker 6: homophobia and the racism. I think if I'd landed in
- 8:57Speaker 6: stayed in LA maybe things wouldn't have been great.
- 9:00Speaker 5: Yeah, I feel like.
- 9:01Speaker 2: The homophobia and racism is just different in different areas.
- 9:04Speaker 2: Like I feel like it is very pervasive, but it's
- 9:06Speaker 2: not allowed to show. It's like a face, you know,
- 9:09Speaker 2: in certain parts of the country, even though it still exists,
- 9:12Speaker 2: just like misogyny and all of.
- 9:14Speaker 1: The stuff kind of exists everywhere.
- 9:15Speaker 2: But I once heard someone say, like, oh, everyone thinks
- 9:19Speaker 2: the South is so racist, but Southern people are able
- 9:21Speaker 2: to like cohabitate and live next to people that are
- 9:23Speaker 2: different from them without having it be a big deal,
- 9:26Speaker 2: whereas in the northern cities we do self segregate. Like
- 9:29Speaker 2: if you come to La you see that it's so segregated. Right,
- 9:31Speaker 2: There's like Korea Town, there's Chinatown. Everybody kind of lives
- 9:35Speaker 2: in there. Part of the thing, which isn't exactly what
- 9:37Speaker 2: we're aiming for either.
- 9:39Speaker 1: Anyway.
- 9:40Speaker 2: Cody, back to you, I hear that you have you
- 9:43Speaker 2: have a long term relationship, right.
- 9:45Speaker 6: Uh no, well I did, but that ended about four
- 9:49Speaker 6: months ago.
- 9:50Speaker 1: Oh I'm glad I could bring that up.
- 9:52Speaker 6: Then, you know what, I'm in such a good place
- 9:54Speaker 6: with it. It was a six year relationship. We broke
- 9:56Speaker 6: up once before for like six months, and I think
- 9:59Speaker 6: that really affected the way that the second breakup happened.
- 10:03Speaker 6: And I had a really hard first month with it,
- 10:06Speaker 6: and then I accepted it and I've been living my life.
- 10:08Speaker 2: Well, wait, can I ask you about that though, Like,
- 10:10Speaker 2: tell me, how do you think the first six month
- 10:13Speaker 2: breakup impacted the second breakup?
- 10:15Speaker 3: That's a great question.
- 10:17Speaker 6: I think in the first breakup, I was taking a
- 10:19Speaker 6: lot of responsibility for like my wrongdoing, and so I
- 10:23Speaker 6: just felt like I needed another chance to give it
- 10:25Speaker 6: a go and I could fix it and do all
- 10:27Speaker 6: these things. And I think upon having another year and
- 10:30Speaker 6: a half together where I was able to like go
- 10:33Speaker 6: to couple's therapy and do all the things and it
- 10:36Speaker 6: still wasn't working, I think I landed in this space
- 10:39Speaker 6: of just us not being able to meet our needs.
- 10:42Speaker 6: And as much as that hurts, and as much as
- 10:45Speaker 6: like I didn't make the decision, it was the best decision.
- 10:48Speaker 6: I also really dove into the book Attached, which goes
- 10:52Speaker 6: into attachment styles within relationship.
- 10:53Speaker 1: Yes, I've read that book. That's a good book.
- 10:55Speaker 3: It's a great book. And like I'm anxiously attached.
- 10:58Speaker 6: He's avoided and that's just like water and oil, and
- 11:01Speaker 6: like it's possible, but it's just going to bring up
- 11:03Speaker 6: a lot of confrontation.
- 11:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I wonder if it's ever possible to change your
- 11:07Speaker 2: attachment style.
- 11:08Speaker 6: It is so half of the population is secure and
- 11:12Speaker 6: then one fourth. One fourth is avoidant, one fourth is anxious,
- 11:17Speaker 6: and the goal is to put into practice self awareness
- 11:22Speaker 6: and things in your life that you then become securely attached.
- 11:26Speaker 2: Okay, because that's interesting because I remember being in a
- 11:28Speaker 2: relationship where I was very anxious, not avoidant, anxious, and
- 11:32Speaker 2: now I and I'm definitely not anxious anymore, Like with
- 11:35Speaker 2: any relationship, I'm just secure because probably because I've done
- 11:38Speaker 2: the therapy and God to understand myself in a much
- 11:40Speaker 2: better way.
- 11:41Speaker 1: Which feels a lot better.
- 11:43Speaker 2: There's nothing worse than feeling the preoccupation of anxiety about
- 11:48Speaker 2: a relationship, checking your phone, wondering if they're going to
- 11:51Speaker 2: show up when they say they're going to show up,
- 11:53Speaker 2: and having all those kind of negative thought cycles around
- 11:56Speaker 2: a relationship.
- 11:57Speaker 6: And yeah, you are secure because you know yourself, you
- 11:59Speaker 6: know your boundaries, you know your worth, and when those
- 12:01Speaker 6: things aren't being met, you know how to be like, hey,
- 12:03Speaker 6: this isn't for.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Me, absolutely, And there's really not a lot of like
- 12:07Speaker 2: gray area anymore.
- 12:08Speaker 1: For me.
- 12:09Speaker 2: It's like I don't care if something works out or
- 12:11Speaker 2: it doesn't. I don't I'm not invested that much into anything.
- 12:14Speaker 2: Even if I were to fall in love with someone.
- 12:16Speaker 2: I can't imagine getting so preoccupied at this stage in
- 12:20Speaker 2: my life with like a lover. So that feels a
- 12:23Speaker 2: lot healthier too, and very mature, and I've never felt
- 12:26Speaker 2: mature until I was in my forties.
- 12:28Speaker 3: I aspire, I aspired to be you in that situation.
- 12:32Speaker 1: So you have a new podcast coming out?
- 12:34Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 12:34Speaker 6: No, Me and my friend Andrew Chappelle have launched Tackle Pettiness.
- 12:37Speaker 6: We actually just shot We just recorded an episode today.
- 12:39Speaker 6: It's been out since June. So if anybody wants to
- 12:44Speaker 6: listen to Tackle Pettiness, get it.
- 12:46Speaker 3: Where your podcasts are gotten?
- 12:47Speaker 1: What platform are you guys.
- 12:49Speaker 3: On on Apple and Spotify?
- 12:51Speaker 2: Okay, great, So what do you guys give advice on
- 12:53Speaker 2: the podcast?
- 12:54Speaker 1: Yeah?
- 12:55Speaker 6: Yeah, we kind of go through like you know, cultural moments,
- 12:57Speaker 6: anything that's topical, and then and then we try to focus
- 13:01Speaker 6: on like a relationship topic like today was like fighting.
- 13:04Speaker 6: We also did travel last week, which was a lot
- 13:06Speaker 6: of a lot of fun. And we take like listeners
- 13:09Speaker 6: questions dish out advice like only two opinionated homosexuals can
- 13:13Speaker 6: that's nice.
- 13:14Speaker 1: That's nice. And your partner on the podcast, what's his name?
- 13:17Speaker 6: Andrew Chappelle, who was an actor, Broadway actor, TV actor. Okay,
- 13:21Speaker 6: one of the funniest people.
- 13:22Speaker 1: I know, one of the funniest people. You know.
- 13:24Speaker 3: Yeah, that's nice. Can go round around with can go
- 13:27Speaker 3: round to a round with me?
- 13:28Speaker 1: Huh? How did you guys hook up?
- 13:30Speaker 3: You know, just being gay in New York City.
- 13:32Speaker 6: We've known each other for probably a decade at this point,
- 13:34Speaker 6: like a friend of a friend and going out on
- 13:37Speaker 6: Fire Island, and you know, our friendship is kind of
- 13:39Speaker 6: interesting because he was one of those people that I
- 13:41Speaker 6: didn't like at first, you know, like where you kind
- 13:43Speaker 6: of give a little side eye and you're like, I
- 13:45Speaker 6: don't like this bitch. And those usually are the foundations
- 13:48Speaker 6: for great friendships because once you get past that initial
- 13:51Speaker 6: that little initial bitchiness, and then you see that you
- 13:54Speaker 6: have so much in common, it's like, oh, I don't
- 13:56Speaker 6: know why I thought you were so horrible, because you're awesome.
- 13:58Speaker 1: I yeah, I agree with that.
- 14:00Speaker 3: Ye.
- 14:00Speaker 2: I always have stronger relationships where it's a kind of
- 14:03Speaker 2: slow burn. I think the idea of making a great
- 14:06Speaker 2: first impression, I don't buy that, Like, I don't think
- 14:10Speaker 2: that matters as much, you know, Like I don't think
- 14:13Speaker 2: every first of all people aren't who they are when
- 14:15Speaker 2: you first meet them. Usually exactly, everyone's kind of, you know,
- 14:18Speaker 2: being on their best behavior or trying to show off
- 14:20Speaker 2: or trying to be I have a problem where people
- 14:22Speaker 2: try to be funny around me all the time, and.
- 14:24Speaker 1: I find that extremely annoying, you know what I mean.
- 14:27Speaker 2: Like when I'm in at airport or someone's on a
- 14:29Speaker 2: plane next to me, they'll lean over and be like
- 14:31Speaker 2: and I'm like, no, no, it's not like that. I'm like,
- 14:34Speaker 2: I don't need you to entertain me.
- 14:35Speaker 1: I don't.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Or they'll say they'll have conversations that they know I'm
- 14:38Speaker 2: in earshot of saying things they know that I'll like
- 14:41Speaker 2: that I'm in accordance with or agreement with.
- 14:44Speaker 1: I also find that exhausting.
- 14:45Speaker 2: I wish people would just be normal, you know what
- 14:47Speaker 2: I mean, Like, you don't have to make me laugh,
- 14:50Speaker 2: just talk to me.
- 14:52Speaker 6: But whenever you're hanging out with and I'll tell you
- 14:55Speaker 6: the reason I'm thinking this, Like, whenever you hang out
- 14:57Speaker 6: with like comedians or people that are in your field,
- 15:00Speaker 6: do you feel like they're spitballing and trying to make
- 15:02Speaker 6: you laugh or trying to like get in with it.
- 15:05Speaker 3: Does that make sense?
- 15:06Speaker 1: I mean, my friends brought it up the other day.
- 15:07Speaker 2: She goes, it's really annoying being around you in a
- 15:09Speaker 2: bunch of other comics because everybody's just trying to be
- 15:11Speaker 2: so funny, And I'm like, oh, yeah, I would imagine
- 15:13Speaker 2: that would be annoying without being a comedian.
- 15:16Speaker 1: But I also don't pick up on that, you know
- 15:18Speaker 1: what I mean, because that's natural. They're comedians.
- 15:20Speaker 2: But when regular people try to be funny sometimes it's
- 15:23Speaker 2: very painful, you know.
- 15:24Speaker 1: It's like, oh.
- 15:25Speaker 6: God, I only say that because I did as a dancer.
- 15:27Speaker 6: I did SNL twice and I remember being on the
- 15:30Speaker 6: set and I was just like, oh my god. These guys,
- 15:31Speaker 6: like especially the guys, they were just like constantly trying
- 15:34Speaker 6: to outdo each other with the funniness. And I was
- 15:36Speaker 6: like enough, Like I'm just a little out dancer extra,
- 15:40Speaker 6: but like enough.
- 15:41Speaker 2: That's fun that you were on that you Oh yeah,
- 15:43Speaker 2: you weren't Dancing with the Stars.
- 15:45Speaker 3: Yeah, Dancing with the Stars as well.
- 15:46Speaker 1: How was that experience.
- 15:50Speaker 6: I'm so grateful that I did it, but it was
- 15:51Speaker 6: honestly one of the most challenging and like things I've
- 15:54Speaker 6: ever done, and one of the things that beat me
- 15:55Speaker 6: down so much physically and mentally and emotionally. But I'm
- 15:58Speaker 6: so glad that I did it, and it was so
- 16:00Speaker 6: good for my career, and they couldn't pay me enough money.
- 16:02Speaker 3: To do it again.
- 16:03Speaker 1: But why did it beat you down emotionally so much?
- 16:08Speaker 5: You know?
- 16:08Speaker 3: Okay, So a lot of my famer notoriety came through
- 16:12Speaker 3: the pandemic, and I was kind of encapsulated in this
- 16:14Speaker 3: like digital space and not really being on my own
- 16:18Speaker 3: in that. And so then to take like go from
- 16:21Speaker 3: Internet famous to kind of TV famous and now have
- 16:25Speaker 3: a lot of opinions about you put out there, a
- 16:29Speaker 3: lot of you know, negative stuff, positive stuff, it was
- 16:32Speaker 3: really hard to absorb.
- 16:34Speaker 6: I'm pretty much someone who like is pretty strong and
- 16:36Speaker 6: confident about themselves. But after doing the show for two months,
- 16:40Speaker 6: you have no days off, You're exhausted, you're tired, and
- 16:44Speaker 6: just like seeing a negative comment like would take me down. Also,
- 16:48Speaker 6: I think with any reality TV show, there's there's things
- 16:52Speaker 6: in play that are supposed to kind of fuck with
- 16:55Speaker 6: you sometimes. Yeah, total, And I wasn't ready for all that.
- 16:59Speaker 6: Like I I come in my partner Showbroke, who's done
- 17:02Speaker 6: that show for like thirty seasons. Why Yeah, the emotional
- 17:05Speaker 6: ups and downs of that for thirty years.
- 17:07Speaker 2: In no way seriously, because then you're also she's having
- 17:10Speaker 2: to all of those regular people are having to deal
- 17:13Speaker 2: with their guests that they have on for the season
- 17:15Speaker 2: and watching them go through their emotional turmoil, right, so
- 17:18Speaker 2: they become like counselors exactly with Peloton. Isn't there like
- 17:23Speaker 2: a chat room or chat board? Do they give you
- 17:24Speaker 2: feedback on Peloton?
- 17:27Speaker 3: Do you mean like members at home?
- 17:29Speaker 1: Or are you like my boss like members at home?
- 17:31Speaker 1: Is that? Is that a feature?
- 17:33Speaker 3: It's not a feature. There's a leaderboard so you can
- 17:35Speaker 3: like compete.
- 17:36Speaker 1: Right, but we never got that kind of stuff.
- 17:39Speaker 2: Ah.
- 17:39Speaker 6: You know, like there is a very rambunctious Facebook group
- 17:42Speaker 6: of Peloton members where they will spew and like say
- 17:45Speaker 6: all the things that they need to.
- 17:46Speaker 3: But I deleted my Facebook like probably three years ago.
- 17:49Speaker 1: So good fucking unless you're a conspiracy theorist.
- 17:53Speaker 6: Yeah, like I think I deleted it close to like
- 17:56Speaker 6: t twenty my election.
- 17:56Speaker 3: I was like, I can't do with this anymore. It's
- 17:58Speaker 3: just people personally headline it's about fucking politics. I can't.
- 18:01Speaker 3: I got them out. I'm out.
- 18:03Speaker 2: I know, I hear you and do you ever do
- 18:05Speaker 2: you ever co mingle with the or sorry not co mingle,
- 18:08Speaker 2: do you ever mingle with any of the other Peloton instructors.
- 18:11Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I actually had like a brunch on
- 18:13Speaker 6: Sunday with two of my colleagues.
- 18:15Speaker 1: Well that's fun.
- 18:16Speaker 6: Yeah, no, I mean it's a very unique job and
- 18:19Speaker 6: only we know what it feels like to be on
- 18:21Speaker 6: the platform and to be teaching fitness in this capacity.
- 18:24Speaker 6: And yeah, I have a lot of fun with them
- 18:26Speaker 6: and a lot of respect for them.
- 18:28Speaker 2: And it's also not something it's so funny because it's
- 18:31Speaker 2: it's such a great career that you would have never
- 18:34Speaker 2: been able to imagine as a child, because this job
- 18:36Speaker 2: didn't exist as a child.
- 18:38Speaker 6: Exactly, yeah, exactly. I never thought that this is how
- 18:41Speaker 6: my life was going to play out. I've always had
- 18:44Speaker 6: like this idea of being I guess famous or being
- 18:48Speaker 6: a personality.
- 18:50Speaker 3: I think I tried to channel that through musical theater
- 18:52Speaker 3: and then dance.
- 18:52Speaker 6: And then it's so crazy that life put me in
- 18:55Speaker 6: the right place at the right time for Peloton and
- 18:57Speaker 6: it was like literally the perfect job for me.
- 19:00Speaker 3: Perfect.
- 19:00Speaker 1: Oh I love that. What a nice success story.
- 19:03Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I look back on it.
- 19:04Speaker 6: I'm just like super grateful, especially because I grew up
- 19:07Speaker 6: so fucking poor and to have the world is my
- 19:10Speaker 6: oyster is fantastic.
- 19:12Speaker 1: Did you run a marathon recently or do an iron man?
- 19:14Speaker 3: That's a fuckingly not. I will not catch me doing that.
- 19:18Speaker 1: Okay, because my friend and from Whistler ran and I
- 19:20Speaker 1: couldn't remember if it was you or one of the
- 19:22Speaker 1: other guys. And she was like, I saw so and
- 19:24Speaker 1: so from Peloton and I was like, that must be so.
- 19:27Speaker 1: She's like, I ran right up to him. I couldn't
- 19:29Speaker 1: believe it was him in person.
- 19:30Speaker 2: I'm like, that sounds so annoying, and just like, stop,
- 19:34Speaker 2: don't approach me. I'm glad it wasn't you, although it
- 19:36Speaker 2: would have been funny if it were.
- 19:38Speaker 6: The way that you feel about children is the way
- 19:39Speaker 6: I feel about marathons. I don't need to do it.
- 19:41Speaker 6: It's going to do nothing for me.
- 19:43Speaker 1: I'm glad it's happening to keep it over there.
- 19:45Speaker 6: So happy it's happening over there, and like I this
- 19:48Speaker 6: was the first year of fifteen years of living in
- 19:49Speaker 6: New York City that I went to the marathon and
- 19:51Speaker 6: cheered people on and it was so cute. I love that.
- 19:54Speaker 6: That was my perfect introduction to it. But you will
- 19:56Speaker 6: not catch me running twenty three point six miles.
- 19:59Speaker 2: I think I think it's twenty six point two miles. Right,
- 20:03Speaker 2: I have no desire. I'm with you. I am not
- 20:06Speaker 2: trying to prove anything to anyone but really myself, like
- 20:11Speaker 2: I would I would never I would have run a
- 20:12Speaker 2: half marathon. I mean, if it was for a charity,
- 20:15Speaker 2: I would just pay for someone else to.
- 20:17Speaker 3: Do it, you know what I mean, here's the donation.
- 20:20Speaker 2: I can't be bothered with that kind of chicanery. It's
- 20:22Speaker 2: too much.
- 20:24Speaker 1: Also, you want to keep your knees, you know.
- 20:26Speaker 6: Yeah, And like I've tackled enough emotional trauma from my
- 20:31Speaker 6: past to feel like I've accomplished something, you know.
- 20:34Speaker 1: I hear you, I hear you.
- 20:35Speaker 2: Okay, we're going to take a break and we're going
- 20:36Speaker 2: to be right back with Cody Rigsby. And we're back
- 20:43Speaker 2: with Cody Rigsby. We're gonna give advice. Cody, you're good
- 20:47Speaker 2: at this, right, I feel like you could be good
- 20:48Speaker 2: and motivational.
- 20:50Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean I love to give hard truths.
- 20:52Speaker 1: Yeah, the hard way all about here.
- 20:55Speaker 6: Unfortunately a lot of people don't have good friends that
- 20:57Speaker 6: are telling them honesty.
- 20:59Speaker 1: I know that's what we're here for.
- 21:00Speaker 2: The people don't Yeah, I mean I know from my
- 21:02Speaker 2: own set of friends that most people don't tell you
- 21:04Speaker 2: the truth.
- 21:05Speaker 6: Oh No, my friends will sit me the fuck down
- 21:07Speaker 6: and be like, bitch, what are you doing? And I
- 21:09Speaker 6: love that and I will do the same.
- 21:11Speaker 2: I always. I'm an interloper. I always will intervene always.
- 21:15Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 21:16Speaker 4: Well, our first question comes from Sherry. This is a
- 21:19Speaker 4: little confusing, but.
- 21:20Speaker 1: Stick with this. Is it Cherry Shepherd's Cherry Shepherd?
- 21:22Speaker 2: Okay, because she just posted a clip of me talking
- 21:24Speaker 2: about me not washing my legs with Kevin Hart on
- 21:27Speaker 2: your show and then invited me for a collab.
- 21:29Speaker 1: I'm like, no, I don't think so, bitch.
- 21:32Speaker 3: You don't wash your legs.
- 21:33Speaker 1: I don't wash my legs in the shower for you.
- 21:35Speaker 1: I mean, what's going Why are my legs dirty? They're not.
- 21:37Speaker 1: They're covered up all day.
- 21:38Speaker 2: And when I wash my hair, the shampoo and the
- 21:40Speaker 2: conditioner falls down my whole body and washes up. I
- 21:44Speaker 2: get in my shower, I wash my Pikachu, I washed
- 21:46Speaker 2: my asshole, I wash under my arms, and then I
- 21:48Speaker 2: washed my butt like the cup the cheeks, so because
- 21:51Speaker 2: I don't want to get any you know, ezema.
- 21:54Speaker 6: I see what I see what you're saying there, And
- 21:56Speaker 6: I can't say that, like one hundred percent I'm washing
- 21:58Speaker 6: of the times I'm washing my legs.
- 22:00Speaker 3: But I'd say, like fifty if.
- 22:02Speaker 2: My legs are dirty, if there's dirt on them, I
- 22:05Speaker 2: will wash them. But they're not. There's not ever dirt.
- 22:08Speaker 2: My legs are never exposed. They're covered all day long.
- 22:11Speaker 2: Like what am I washing them for?
- 22:12Speaker 1: Cody?
- 22:13Speaker 4: Are you running around New York City with shorts on?
- 22:15Speaker 4: That is the real question. Then you have to wash
- 22:17Speaker 4: your legs.
- 22:18Speaker 6: So yes, I haven't been wearing a lot of pants,
- 22:21Speaker 6: so yeah, I wear shorts as much as I possible.
- 22:23Speaker 2: Then you should be washing your legs, yeah yeah, even
- 22:26Speaker 2: though you're not, you should be.
- 22:28Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. But I do somewhat agree that
- 22:30Speaker 6: the soap will trickle down and get onto the legs.
- 22:33Speaker 6: It's not a full screen.
- 22:34Speaker 3: I go.
- 22:34Speaker 2: If there's a crevice that I need to get into,
- 22:37Speaker 2: then I will go there with the soap in the water,
- 22:40Speaker 2: But the legs are out, My legs are out. I
- 22:42Speaker 2: don't have to get in behind my kneecap, like there's
- 22:45Speaker 2: nothing fat.
- 22:46Speaker 6: But if you don't, if you don't wash your feet,
- 22:48Speaker 6: nobody can put their foot in your feet in their mouth.
- 22:51Speaker 1: That's fight.
- 22:51Speaker 2: And then by the way, the water, the soap and
- 22:53Speaker 2: all everything lands on my feet too, right before it
- 22:55Speaker 2: goes down the drain.
- 22:56Speaker 1: So those are I think that feel like are clean.
- 22:57Speaker 3: They're good, They're really clean.
- 22:59Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 23:00Speaker 6: Tell sign if someone likes you and while you're fucking
- 23:02Speaker 6: they if they put your feet in their mouth, then
- 23:04Speaker 6: you're they're very into.
- 23:05Speaker 1: You, definitely, or they have a foot fetish. But I
- 23:09Speaker 1: don't really need anyone to be sucking my foot, you
- 23:11Speaker 1: know what I mean. There's so many others.
- 23:13Speaker 6: Like you know, from time to time, I'm like, hey, okay,
- 23:15Speaker 6: this works, I'm here for it.
- 23:16Speaker 3: Go on.
- 23:17Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- 23:18Speaker 2: I kind of have that attitude too, like if you
- 23:19Speaker 2: want to do it, but if you do it, like
- 23:21Speaker 2: if it.
- 23:21Speaker 1: Is a fetishy thing, I'm not into it.
- 23:23Speaker 2: Like if it happens every time, then no, it has
- 23:26Speaker 2: to be like sporadic.
- 23:28Speaker 3: One time, we haven't even gotten a question.
- 23:31Speaker 1: That's okay.
- 23:32Speaker 3: Continue.
- 23:33Speaker 6: There was one time I was at this party in
- 23:34Speaker 6: Fire Island and this guy asked me he definitely had
- 23:38Speaker 6: a foot finish.
- 23:38Speaker 3: He was like, can I just massage your feet? And
- 23:40Speaker 3: I was like, you know what, go for it. And
- 23:42Speaker 3: it obviously an incredible massage, of course.
- 23:44Speaker 1: And why would anyone say no to a foot massage.
- 23:46Speaker 2: I mean, I will take a foot massage from someone
- 23:49Speaker 2: from Isis.
- 23:49Speaker 1: You know what I mean.
- 23:50Speaker 2: I don't care who's giving me a foot massage. I
- 23:52Speaker 2: love getting my feet rubbed exactly. Okay, question, We're ready, So.
- 23:58Speaker 4: Back to Sherry. She says, Dear Chelsea, I have an
- 24:02Speaker 4: ethical dilemma that I'm hoping you can give me advice
- 24:04Speaker 4: on what I should do. Within my group of friends,
- 24:07Speaker 4: there are two couples with a messy situation. Let's call
- 24:10Speaker 4: them Couple A and Couple B. I'm close friends with
- 24:13Speaker 4: all of them, especially the wife from each couple. Both
- 24:17Speaker 4: couples have young kids. The husband from Couple A recently
- 24:21Speaker 4: confided in US that his wife has been having an
- 24:23Speaker 4: on again, off again affair with husband B for over
- 24:27Speaker 4: ten years.
- 24:28Speaker 5: Oh.
- 24:29Speaker 4: Husband A confronted husband B about their affair and he
- 24:33Speaker 4: admitted it too great. Husband A is devastated and heartbroken.
- 24:37Speaker 4: He hasn't made any decisions yet about what he's going
- 24:39Speaker 4: to do. He feels that coming out with this and
- 24:41Speaker 4: telling Wife B will ultimately destroy two families. As far
- 24:45Speaker 4: as I know, my husband and I are the only
- 24:47Speaker 4: other people who know about the affair, and I feel
- 24:49Speaker 4: terrible that I know this information, But I haven't told
- 24:52Speaker 4: my friend wife B about what her husband has been
- 24:55Speaker 4: up to.
- 24:55Speaker 1: What do I do?
- 24:56Speaker 4: Do I tell Wife BE or leave it up to
- 24:58Speaker 4: Husband A to decide? This is such a difficult position
- 25:01Speaker 4: to be in, and I wish I didn't know this information.
- 25:04Speaker 4: If I keep it to myself, how can I continue
- 25:06Speaker 4: my friendship with Wife B? To make matters worse? This
- 25:09Speaker 4: isn't the first time I've heard that husband B has
- 25:11Speaker 4: been unfaithful, but in the past I kept it to
- 25:14Speaker 4: myself because I didn't know for sure, and I figured
- 25:16Speaker 4: that saying something to wife BE would more than likely
- 25:19Speaker 4: ruin our friendship because she would ultimately believe her husband
- 25:22Speaker 4: because he talks for a living and can be very
- 25:24Speaker 4: convincing and influential. What do I do, Cherry?
- 25:28Speaker 2: My disposition on this constantly changes, depending on the set
- 25:33Speaker 2: of circumstances and depending on the feedback we've gotten from
- 25:36Speaker 2: callers who've called in with similar problems, Cody, why don't
- 25:38Speaker 2: you go first and give your advice on this situation?
- 25:41Speaker 3: Wow, first of all, the question felt like a fucking
- 25:43Speaker 3: sat question.
- 25:45Speaker 1: Just be happy she fucking divvied them up to couple
- 25:47Speaker 1: A and B.
- 25:48Speaker 2: The other day, I'm dealing with thirty six cousins, a
- 25:51Speaker 2: nephew and an ann and a priest.
- 25:52Speaker 1: I was like, what, I can't follow the story?
- 25:56Speaker 6: Uh, yeah, they should honestly just be in a polycule
- 25:59Speaker 6: because they're halfway there to all having sex with each other.
- 26:04Speaker 6: They honestly need to reframe their idea of like, I
- 26:07Speaker 6: don't think monogamy is for everybody, and so maybe they
- 26:10Speaker 6: want to explore some form of ethical non monogamy. But
- 26:15Speaker 6: that's really on them.
- 26:16Speaker 3: To decide what they're doing with the mess.
- 26:18Speaker 6: If I were the friend, I would kind of stay
- 26:21Speaker 6: out of it because you already know the tisis like
- 26:25Speaker 6: husband Bee is cheating on wife Be and she's not
- 26:29Speaker 6: gonna believe you if you say it, so it's going
- 26:31Speaker 6: to ruin your friendship. Anyways, I would stay the fuck
- 26:35Speaker 6: out of it until it all comes out, because everything
- 26:38Speaker 6: dark comes to the light one way or the other.
- 26:41Speaker 2: I would agree, I'm going to say that sometimes I
- 26:44Speaker 2: say tell on them, you know, like I want people to.
- 26:46Speaker 2: But for this situation, I would say, it sounds like
- 26:49Speaker 2: it's about to come out anyway, like everywhere, all the
- 26:52Speaker 2: chips are falling and like not into place, out of place,
- 26:55Speaker 2: like everyone's going to kind of get the situation and
- 27:01Speaker 2: it's not your responsibility. It sounds messy. And if it's
- 27:04Speaker 2: been going on for ten years, that's a whole other
- 27:07Speaker 2: level of unethical non monogamy. I like what you said
- 27:12Speaker 2: ethical non monogamy, because that's important. You can have that
- 27:16Speaker 2: if you're ethical about it and honest.
- 27:18Speaker 1: But that's not what's going on here.
- 27:20Speaker 2: Especially if that guy's talk or like you don't want
- 27:22Speaker 2: to ruin your relationship with your friend, you know. I
- 27:25Speaker 2: think it's it's best to just let let the chips
- 27:28Speaker 2: fall where they may, and then you can get in
- 27:30Speaker 2: there after and be like, listen, I was in a
- 27:32Speaker 2: really uncomfortable situation and I didn't know if you knew,
- 27:35Speaker 2: and you know, all of that stuff. I didn't want
- 27:38Speaker 2: to get involved in it because it was very confusing.
- 27:41Speaker 2: But yeah, I say stay out of it.
- 27:44Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, I think I think a post mortem when
- 27:47Speaker 6: when everything hits the fan. She can then come to
- 27:49Speaker 6: the friend and be like, hey, girl, like I did
- 27:51Speaker 6: know this, but this is why it was complicated.
- 27:53Speaker 3: I love you, I'm here for you. Let me help
- 27:55Speaker 3: you through this.
- 27:57Speaker 4: Are you a monogamist, Cody?
- 27:59Speaker 3: I am not.
- 28:00Speaker 6: I was gonna say, as someone who has cheated on boyfriends,
- 28:04Speaker 6: I feel like the way to go is non monogamy.
- 28:07Speaker 6: But I am a firm believer that monogamy does need
- 28:10Speaker 6: to be at least for me, needs to be the
- 28:13Speaker 6: foundation at first in the relationship. But as the years
- 28:16Speaker 6: go on, Like I just I don't think I could
- 28:17Speaker 6: only sleep with one person for the rest of my life.
- 28:19Speaker 6: I know, I know that I can't, but I'm not.
- 28:21Speaker 6: I don't want to be polyamorous. I couldn't have a
- 28:23Speaker 6: relationship with those bob people.
- 28:24Speaker 1: Just fucking yeah.
- 28:25Speaker 2: I don't know who put this monogamy into our heads
- 28:28Speaker 2: to begin with. It's too it's just it's just very antiquated.
- 28:32Speaker 2: It's starting to feel even though I'm a monogamous like
- 28:35Speaker 2: when I'm with someone, i'm with them, I can totally
- 28:37Speaker 2: see why it doesn't make any sense for long periods
- 28:40Speaker 2: of time, you know, maybe five year, ten year intervals,
- 28:43Speaker 2: even ten years sounds like too.
- 28:44Speaker 1: Long, but some people really do love monogamy.
- 28:48Speaker 6: So and for the people that love it, go for
- 28:52Speaker 6: a baby. I just know in my soul it's not
- 28:55Speaker 6: for me.
- 28:56Speaker 2: Yeah, It's like I know in my soul that I
- 28:58Speaker 2: wasn't meant to be someone's wife or mother exactly.
- 29:02Speaker 1: Like, no regrets.
- 29:03Speaker 2: In fact, every time I think about it, the fact
- 29:06Speaker 2: that I don't have a child, or the fact that
- 29:08Speaker 2: I don't have a partner, I'm just so grateful, Like
- 29:11Speaker 2: I'm like, oh, this is so much nicer.
- 29:14Speaker 6: So also, like being married or like in a long
- 29:17Speaker 6: term committed relationship is not your not your vibe either.
- 29:21Speaker 1: I don't want to be married.
- 29:22Speaker 6: No, no legal status. But you can be with someone
- 29:25Speaker 6: maybe for the rest of your life.
- 29:26Speaker 1: Maybe maybe, but let's be reasonable, doubt.
- 29:30Speaker 6: You know, I love people who know what they want
- 29:32Speaker 6: and they're that's the perfect way to be.
- 29:35Speaker 2: Yeah, I like, yeah, I like to be stimulated, So
- 29:39Speaker 2: to be stimulated usually requires a newness.
- 29:42Speaker 1: Yeah, at some point.
- 29:44Speaker 4: Well, our next question we'll start with Kelly. Her subject
- 29:48Speaker 4: line is how to lose weight without quote unquote compliments.
- 29:52Speaker 4: Dear Chelsea. Bottom line up front, I'm about to go
- 29:55Speaker 4: on weightless medication. But I don't want people close to
- 29:58Speaker 4: me to comment on my body changes. How do I
- 30:00Speaker 4: let people know this without sounding cunty?
- 30:03Speaker 1: For context?
- 30:04Speaker 4: For the past two years, my doctors and I have
- 30:06Speaker 4: been trying to figure out why my body won't respond
- 30:08Speaker 4: to eating responsibly and consistently attending a spine gym for
- 30:11Speaker 4: about twelve of those months. This summer, she and my
- 30:14Speaker 4: undocrinologist diagnosed me with PCOS and one of the symptoms
- 30:18Speaker 4: is weight gain. We decided to try met Foreman and
- 30:20Speaker 4: tweak my eating habits and exercise routine and regroup in December.
- 30:24Speaker 4: While it's coming, decision time and nothing has changed, so
- 30:27Speaker 4: it's time to pivot to an injectable. From ages thirteen
- 30:30Speaker 4: to twenty seven ish, I struggled with bolimia, trendy diets,
- 30:33Speaker 4: obsessive workouts that made me a slave to the gym
- 30:35Speaker 4: for hours a day while tracking every gram of macros
- 30:38Speaker 4: across every piece of food, among other disordered eating behaviors.
- 30:42Speaker 4: After years of therapy, I'm now at my heaviest weight
- 30:45Speaker 4: but healthiest mental state. I'm a firm believer in body neutrality, However,
- 30:49Speaker 4: I feel my body just isn't meant to carry this
- 30:51Speaker 4: much weight in this form, and I'm uncomfortable and know
- 30:53Speaker 4: my body chemistry is just not operating correctly throughout my
- 30:57Speaker 4: weight fluctuations. The one thing that has been consistent is
- 30:59Speaker 4: that my family praises me when I'm in a smaller body.
- 31:02Speaker 4: I understand this is a cultural thing and they have
- 31:04Speaker 4: the best intentions. I also know I have done the
- 31:07Speaker 4: work to deal with how I perceive myself, but I
- 31:10Speaker 4: worry that those around me will keep up with their
- 31:12Speaker 4: old ways. Is there a way to get ahead of
- 31:14Speaker 4: this or handle the quote unquote compliments when I know
- 31:16Speaker 4: they mean well but also feel they could be damaging
- 31:19Speaker 4: to me. Thank you for all the positive energy. Kelly.
- 31:23Speaker 1: Hi, Kelly, Hey, Hey, Kelly.
- 31:25Speaker 7: Hello.
- 31:27Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to this.
- 31:28Speaker 2: I don't know how you get people to not comment
- 31:31Speaker 2: on your weight, because it's so like if you have
- 31:33Speaker 2: a history with your family, that's one thing you can
- 31:35Speaker 2: have a conversation with them and explain to them what's
- 31:38Speaker 2: happening and how you don't think it's healthy for your
- 31:40Speaker 2: you know, your your mental health to hear their feedback
- 31:44Speaker 2: about your physicality all the time.
- 31:46Speaker 1: This is Cody Rigsby, by the way, Yeah, Okay, great, it.
- 31:51Speaker 2: Feels like, okay, are you gonna have that? Is it
- 31:53Speaker 2: going to have a deleterious impact on you if regular
- 31:56Speaker 2: people are commenting on your way, because it's a very
- 31:58Speaker 2: hard thing for people not to do.
- 32:00Speaker 7: No, I know that it's my family and they're not
- 32:03Speaker 7: great at taking those types of conversations. Case in point,
- 32:07Speaker 7: like freshman year of college, I lost like forty pounds
- 32:11Speaker 7: and my aunt, who's been like a pseudo grandmother to
- 32:14Speaker 7: me my entire life, like called me over and was
- 32:17Speaker 7: just like, helly, you look wonderful.
- 32:19Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you.
- 32:20Speaker 7: And this, that and the other thing, and like that's
- 32:23Speaker 7: where most of my compliments come from my family.
- 32:26Speaker 3: May I take a stab at this?
- 32:27Speaker 1: Yes?
- 32:28Speaker 3: Yeah?
- 32:28Speaker 4: Please?
- 32:29Speaker 6: Well, first of all, I commend you on like you
- 32:33Speaker 6: being in the right place for your own journey, because
- 32:36Speaker 6: you seem really grounded in, like this is for my health,
- 32:39Speaker 6: this is for my mental health, This is for me
- 32:41Speaker 6: to feel confident, this is for me to feel like
- 32:44Speaker 6: my best And I think that is the best mentality
- 32:46Speaker 6: to have, especially around weight loss or working out. Like
- 32:50Speaker 6: our bodies are only going to look a certain way
- 32:52Speaker 6: for a certain time. They're gonna fluctuate. They're gonna change
- 32:54Speaker 6: and we don't have control over that. So I think
- 32:57Speaker 6: that's a great mental space. That being said, also, we
- 32:59Speaker 6: can't control other people's actions. We're not gonna be able
- 33:02Speaker 6: to control the compliments that they give us. But I
- 33:05Speaker 6: think that you can start to reframe those physical comments
- 33:11Speaker 6: into a space of if someone's like, hey, you look great, Kelly,
- 33:16Speaker 6: since you've lost eight you're like, thank you. I think
- 33:18Speaker 6: just saying thank you to any compliment is fine. You
- 33:20Speaker 6: could also take lead on the conversation of being like,
- 33:23Speaker 6: thank you, but honestly, it's I feel amazing and I've
- 33:27Speaker 6: never felt better and I'm really happy, and that's the
- 33:32Speaker 6: thing that you want.
- 33:33Speaker 3: To get across to them.
- 33:34Speaker 6: It's just the way you feel and just taking charge
- 33:36Speaker 6: of the charge of the narrative and knowing you can't
- 33:38Speaker 6: control anybody whatever the heck they're gonna say.
- 33:40Speaker 4: I do think there's a little bit of room for
- 33:42Speaker 4: some teaching here. I think if there are certain family
- 33:46Speaker 4: members you're worried about kind of like really hitting the
- 33:49Speaker 4: like oh you look so skinny, stuff hard, I think
- 33:52Speaker 4: it's okay to like just address that with them, like
- 33:55Speaker 4: I'm making some changes with my doctors for my health
- 33:58Speaker 4: and like I just would so appreciate it, like not
- 34:00Speaker 4: commenting on my body, or if someone does bring it up,
- 34:03Speaker 4: saying like thank you so much. I know you mean well,
- 34:05Speaker 4: but you know I'm the same person in a larger
- 34:07Speaker 4: or a smaller body, So thanks for letting me know.
- 34:10Speaker 4: But I'm feeling really happy. And you know, like Cody said,
- 34:13Speaker 4: going into like I'm feeling happy about this x y
- 34:15Speaker 4: Z in my life. It doesn't necessarily have to be
- 34:17Speaker 4: like a body thing. It can be something that's just
- 34:21Speaker 4: like something you're doing that's making you feel better in
- 34:23Speaker 4: your life.
- 34:24Speaker 2: But I also think it wouldn't be like okay if
- 34:26Speaker 2: your family doesn't respond well to things. If you wrote
- 34:28Speaker 2: a thoughtful email to your family and said, listen, I'm
- 34:31Speaker 2: on this like weight loss journey. The times where I
- 34:34Speaker 2: have lost weight and have heard comments from you guys,
- 34:37Speaker 2: which I know you are, you know, giving me or
- 34:40Speaker 2: compliments about how I look good when I lose weight
- 34:43Speaker 2: or when I've dropped forty pounds. You can give specific
- 34:45Speaker 2: examples about your freshman year in college, the comments I
- 34:49Speaker 2: know you mean well, but those kind of comments and
- 34:52Speaker 2: getting rewarded for having a smaller body. Have it helped,
- 34:56Speaker 2: so moving forward, it would really mean the world to
- 34:58Speaker 2: me if we could just keep the comments to yourself
- 35:01Speaker 2: about me and any sort of weight loss or weight
- 35:04Speaker 2: gain I have. I need to do this for my
- 35:06Speaker 2: own mental health and this is something that's really important
- 35:09Speaker 2: to me, and as people who love me, I can
- 35:11Speaker 2: only imagine that you want to support that.
- 35:13Speaker 7: That sounds doable. My family's not the type of people
- 35:16Speaker 7: that you can have that kind of conversation in person with.
- 35:18Speaker 1: So yeah, write it in an email.
- 35:21Speaker 2: Let them all talk about it together and be like, oh,
- 35:24Speaker 2: did you get the email we did? A like, let
- 35:26Speaker 2: them reflect and actually digest what you're saying. It's not unreasonable,
- 35:30Speaker 2: and once they know that it has that impact on you,
- 35:33Speaker 2: they are going to think twice about making those comments.
- 35:35Speaker 2: And you can say, we're in a different time, it's
- 35:37Speaker 2: not really appropriate to be making these comments. I'm feeling
- 35:41Speaker 2: so good about myself. I just want to keep feeling
- 35:44Speaker 2: good about myself and those kind of comments are not
- 35:46Speaker 2: helpful for me.
- 35:48Speaker 1: Okay, No, I like the sounds of that.
- 35:50Speaker 7: I just I guess I'm just nervous for you know,
- 35:54Speaker 7: sounding like pretentious and part of me touches.
- 35:58Speaker 2: But you're not being pretentious. You're being detective of yourself.
- 36:01Speaker 2: That's what you're being self empowering. There's nothing pretentious. Forget
- 36:05Speaker 2: about your family and where they're from. This is about
- 36:08Speaker 2: you and where you're from and where you're going. Like,
- 36:10Speaker 2: there's nothing pretentious about that. That's actually being really upfront
- 36:13Speaker 2: and honest, and there's nothing wrong with it.
- 36:16Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:17Speaker 3: It's creating a boundary, communicating that boundary and telling people
- 36:20Speaker 3: to you know, not cross it.
- 36:22Speaker 4: Yeah, and I think like when people do, because you
- 36:25Speaker 4: will have people who who cross that boundary, even if
- 36:28Speaker 4: you've communicated with them, you know, having that patience and
- 36:30Speaker 4: being like thinks like, this isn't really because I'm doing
- 36:33Speaker 4: all these different things. This is because I'm treating the
- 36:35Speaker 4: pcos that you know caused some of this weight cane
- 36:38Speaker 4: and that sort of thing. You know, I'm working with
- 36:39Speaker 4: my doctors and getting good treatment.
- 36:42Speaker 1: Yeah.
- 36:43Speaker 2: Yeah, and also and also do some of the work
- 36:46Speaker 2: that Cody mentioned about taking those comments and kind of
- 36:50Speaker 2: having them turn into a different comment in your head.
- 36:53Speaker 2: You really can't control what other people are going to
- 36:56Speaker 2: say or how they're going to react, so you have
- 36:58Speaker 2: to kind of figure out the way that you're going
- 36:59Speaker 2: to be able to digest them in a different way
- 37:02Speaker 2: instead of having it make you feel like uncomfortable. There's
- 37:05Speaker 2: a way you can kind of empower yourself with those
- 37:07Speaker 2: comments and be like, I'm going to take that and
- 37:10Speaker 2: this is this is what I know that they meant
- 37:12Speaker 2: to say or that they wanted me to feel, So
- 37:15Speaker 2: I am going to choose to feel that way, even
- 37:17Speaker 2: though it's an annoying thing to keep hearing.
- 37:20Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, there's probably like a different way to
- 37:21Speaker 4: sort of metabolize those comments that you're getting, you know,
- 37:24Speaker 4: so to speak. But I also think it's really important
- 37:27Speaker 4: to underscore here that you know, we're in twenty twenty five, Like,
- 37:32Speaker 4: it's never okay to comment on someone else's body, you know,
- 37:36Speaker 4: whether their skin is discolored, or they have an injury,
- 37:38Speaker 4: or they've lost or gained weight, or they're wearing a
- 37:40Speaker 4: medical device, Like it's okay to just not say anything.
- 37:45Speaker 4: And in fact, it's preferable to not say anything unless
- 37:47Speaker 4: they bring it up and it's something that they choose
- 37:49Speaker 4: to talk about. You know, unsolicited comments about someone's weight
- 37:54Speaker 4: and especially weight loss can be really painful for people.
- 37:58Speaker 4: I mean people lose and gain weight for all kinds
- 38:00Speaker 4: of reasons. I mean, they may be going through a
- 38:02Speaker 4: period of grief, maybe they've changed medication that's caused weight
- 38:06Speaker 4: gain or weight loss. Maybe they're having a mental health crisis,
- 38:09Speaker 4: or they're dealing with an illness, maybe they have an
- 38:12Speaker 4: eating disorder, and those compliments really can get in their
- 38:15Speaker 4: head and do really lasting damage. So I think it's
- 38:19Speaker 4: really something that we have to pay attention to that,
- 38:22Speaker 4: like our words do matter, and sometimes even when we're
- 38:25Speaker 4: trying to be kind, it can unintentionally be really damaging.
- 38:28Speaker 4: So I think it's great to be able to set
- 38:30Speaker 4: these boundaries with your family. But if you have like
- 38:33Speaker 4: a neighbor who comments, or you know someone else in
- 38:36Speaker 4: your life who comments, one thing you can say is
- 38:39Speaker 4: just like, yeah, I know, bodies change in all kinds
- 38:42Speaker 4: of ways for all different reasons, right, and just like
- 38:45Speaker 4: leave it at that, and like if it's a little awkward,
- 38:48Speaker 4: it's okay if it's a little bit awkward. But with
- 38:50Speaker 4: a comment like that, you're not really giving any credence
- 38:52Speaker 4: to like it's a positive thing or a negative thing,
- 38:55Speaker 4: but you're also not denying that it happened.
- 38:57Speaker 1: So it's a good way to set a boundary.
- 38:59Speaker 2: But I'll be afraid of putting up boundaries like that's
- 39:02Speaker 2: what we're lacking. Yeah, especially as women.
- 39:05Speaker 7: Oh yeah, certainly with my family, we're grossly closed.
- 39:08Speaker 2: So yeah, okay, well, good put together an email, compose it,
- 39:13Speaker 2: take your time to write it, and I guarantee you you'll.
- 39:15Speaker 1: Be surprised by the results, yeah, or the response. I mean,
- 39:19Speaker 1: all right, thank you, thanks so much, Kelly. Thank you, bye,
- 39:23Speaker 1: Kelly Bye, have a good one.
- 39:25Speaker 4: I think that's such a good question too, because we
- 39:27Speaker 4: don't necessarily know what people's backstories are, whether they have
- 39:30Speaker 4: a condition that's causing weaking. Maybe they were depressed and
- 39:33Speaker 4: lost fifty pounds.
- 39:34Speaker 6: You know.
- 39:35Speaker 4: It's a good teaching moment to have with her family.
- 39:37Speaker 1: Yeah, I had.
- 39:38Speaker 2: I was in Mayorka this summer and this server, this
- 39:41Speaker 2: restaurant that I go to a lot, there's a server
- 39:43Speaker 2: and from the beginning I went in June, and then
- 39:44Speaker 2: I went back in September. And when I went back
- 39:46Speaker 2: in September, she had lost, like I mean, like fifty pounds.
- 39:49Speaker 2: And she was never heavy to begin with. She was
- 39:51Speaker 2: very muscular and like very healthy. And I didn't say
- 39:53Speaker 2: anything because I knew better than to say anything, and
- 39:57Speaker 2: she said something and she was like, oh my god,
- 39:59Speaker 2: look at I'm wasting away. And I go, oh my gosh,
- 40:02Speaker 2: I know you look amazing like and she goes, no,
- 40:05Speaker 2: I've lost weight because of stress.
- 40:07Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, oh shit, right, fucked up.
- 40:10Speaker 1: You know you were just learning terrible.
- 40:14Speaker 2: I did you know she wasn't happy about the weight loss,
- 40:16Speaker 2: but I knew enough not to bring it up. But
- 40:18Speaker 2: when she brought it up, or should have been like,
- 40:20Speaker 2: oh yeah yeah.
- 40:21Speaker 1: Plus we were speaking Spanish, so thought always go side.
- 40:23Speaker 6: You never know how someone's gonna interpret it. It's like
- 40:25Speaker 6: when people say I look so skinny, I'm like, bitch,
- 40:27Speaker 6: but what I don't want to look scary.
- 40:28Speaker 3: I want to look like like a muscular man. So
- 40:31Speaker 3: it's like you gets fucked up in your head.
- 40:33Speaker 4: Yeah, we've been talking a lot about that lately, about
- 40:35Speaker 4: like not talking about like skinny, but talking about strong strong.
- 40:38Speaker 1: We liked, yes, yes, fit and strong. Yes.
- 40:42Speaker 5: Well.
- 40:42Speaker 4: Our next question comes from Britney and she is seeking
- 40:45Speaker 4: some fitness motivation advice.
- 40:47Speaker 1: Oh perfect, yeah, she says, you're Chelsea, is it? Britney spears,
- 40:51Speaker 1: I hope, so, yeah.
- 40:52Speaker 4: I'm writing in for some motivation on how to get
- 40:55Speaker 4: into a better exercise routine and routines in general. I
- 40:59Speaker 4: recently got married, and before the wedding I was able
- 41:01Speaker 4: to motivate myself to eat clean and exercise by wanting
- 41:04Speaker 4: to look amazing in my wedding gown, which I killed it.
- 41:07Speaker 4: Now I'm several months post wedding and I can't get
- 41:10Speaker 4: motivated to do anything unless there's a staunch deadline. My
- 41:13Speaker 4: wedding guest thank you cards, I still haven't finished writing,
- 41:16Speaker 4: and overall I just prefer to laze around then start
- 41:19Speaker 4: any of my home improvement projects.
- 41:21Speaker 1: My partner's also.
- 41:22Speaker 4: Trying to get into a gym routine, but oftentimes are
- 41:24Speaker 4: preferred time to work out just not align. Pre wedding,
- 41:27Speaker 4: I was involved with a spin class that I loved, which,
- 41:29Speaker 4: by the way, like both of these ones that mentioned spin,
- 41:33Speaker 4: it was like kind of just a fluke, nice little
- 41:36Speaker 4: thing there, so some serendipity, but the instructor moved away
- 41:39Speaker 4: and the gym has not hired a replacement. Lastly, I
- 41:42Speaker 4: cannot seem, for the life of me to wake up
- 41:44Speaker 4: early for my own enjoyment, such as to meditate or
- 41:46Speaker 4: write in a Gratitude Journal. I wake up with barely
- 41:49Speaker 4: enough time to prepare for my workday and always seem
- 41:51Speaker 4: to rush out the door five minutes late. It just
- 41:53Speaker 4: seems like an overall lack of diligence and structure. Do
- 41:56Speaker 4: you have any tools or vice that might help me
- 41:58Speaker 4: in my journey? Sincerely, very tired person, Brittany, Brittany, Hi, Brittany,
- 42:04Speaker 4: Hi Brittany.
- 42:05Speaker 3: I love the way you spell it, by the way,
- 42:07Speaker 3: Oh thank you. I'll let my mom know.
- 42:10Speaker 1: Brittany, why are you so tired? I don't know that's
- 42:14Speaker 1: the thing.
- 42:15Speaker 5: And I have energy throughout the day, but when it
- 42:18Speaker 5: comes to the motivation in the morning to get started
- 42:23Speaker 5: or the motivation after I've been working seven and a
- 42:27Speaker 5: half hours, I don't have it in me to like
- 42:32Speaker 5: I make excuses for myself as to why I don't
- 42:34Speaker 5: want to wake up whenever my first alarm goes off
- 42:37Speaker 5: or I end up you know, after work, I just
- 42:41Speaker 5: don't want to stop. I don't want to stop at
- 42:42Speaker 5: the gym. I want to get home. I want to
- 42:44Speaker 5: cook dinner. I want to chill in my pj's and
- 42:47Speaker 5: watch TV. And I really want some I want to
- 42:53Speaker 5: see these changes in theory, but the action is just
- 42:57Speaker 5: I've had a hard time with that motivation.
- 43:00Speaker 3: To get there.
- 43:01Speaker 6: Do you feel like you're getting enough sleep or you
- 43:03Speaker 6: feel like you're not sleeping enough? Also, I feel.
- 43:06Speaker 5: Like in general, once I get going, I'm awake, So
- 43:09Speaker 5: I don't feel like I'm overall like tired during the day.
- 43:12Speaker 5: It's just when it gets to about ten thirty, I'm done.
- 43:17Speaker 6: Do you work at an office or do you work
- 43:18Speaker 6: from home? Like, do you have the ability to like
- 43:20Speaker 6: go work out in the middle of the day maybe
- 43:23Speaker 6: since you have more energy throughout the day.
- 43:25Speaker 5: So my work day is generally so I get to
- 43:28Speaker 5: work at seven thirty. I do go into the office
- 43:31Speaker 5: most days of the week. I do have some flexibility
- 43:33Speaker 5: to work from home, but I generally at work do
- 43:38Speaker 5: not have any I try to limit distractions as much
- 43:42Speaker 5: as possible.
- 43:43Speaker 3: So I think it's like for me, it's it's about
- 43:47Speaker 3: building habits that you're going to do, regardless of when
- 43:49Speaker 3: it's comfortable or convenient, and just putting those into your
- 43:53Speaker 3: day or week so that they're so consistent that you
- 43:57Speaker 3: show up when you don't want to.
- 43:59Speaker 6: If you have more energy throughout the day and you
- 44:01Speaker 6: have the possibility of working even if it's just two
- 44:05Speaker 6: days a week from home and you are already getting
- 44:09Speaker 6: dressed in like ath leisure. You can pump from your
- 44:14Speaker 6: meeting and then work out from home like in some
- 44:17Speaker 6: Body with body Weight, and you're not you're not taking
- 44:21Speaker 6: too much time away from you from your work. At
- 44:25Speaker 6: least you're getting in a few workouts a week. I
- 44:28Speaker 6: feel like if you're already setting your goal on this
- 44:31Speaker 6: mountain of like I got to work out every day,
- 44:33Speaker 6: you're already going to set yourself up for failure. So
- 44:35Speaker 6: I think finding some opportunities where you could work out
- 44:38Speaker 6: twenty to thirty minutes, even if it's two to three
- 44:40Speaker 6: times a week. Maybe it's maybe it's the two days
- 44:42Speaker 6: you work from home and one like maybe it's Saturday
- 44:45Speaker 6: or Sunday. And maybe you and your husband it could
- 44:47Speaker 6: work out on the weekend together since you're both off,
- 44:50Speaker 6: and that might be something fun that you can do
- 44:52Speaker 6: and don't let the workout have to be a chore
- 44:55Speaker 6: a task. Maybe you guys can go for a hike
- 44:57Speaker 6: or a walk. Maybe you can just do something it's fun.
- 45:00Speaker 6: And I don't know if you like to dance, like do
- 45:01Speaker 6: dance cardio. Do something that brings you a little bit
- 45:04Speaker 6: of joy even as you make it a task.
- 45:09Speaker 2: And I would also say, just get in the habit
- 45:11Speaker 2: of like the exercise and lends itself to your life
- 45:14Speaker 2: in multiple ways. It's not just about the exercise. It's
- 45:17Speaker 2: about your mental clarity. It's about getting rid of any cortisol.
- 45:22Speaker 2: You don't want to overdo it, but you do want
- 45:23Speaker 2: to exert yourself to a degree every day. Like I
- 45:26Speaker 2: would say to get up every morning and just walk
- 45:28Speaker 2: for twenty minutes, Go power walking outside your neighborhood for
- 45:30Speaker 2: twenty minutes, no matter what, you know what I mean,
- 45:33Speaker 2: so that your body is moving, your body is getting energized,
- 45:36Speaker 2: and you're like creating more energy for yourself throughout the day.
- 45:40Speaker 2: Like exercise is so related. If I don't exercise, I
- 45:43Speaker 2: have no energy. That's why you have no energy.
- 45:46Speaker 6: You know.
- 45:46Speaker 2: If I go for three or four days without working out,
- 45:48Speaker 2: I feel it. Even when I'm hungover or I've just
- 45:51Speaker 2: been on a flight and I've been performing, I always
- 45:54Speaker 2: get up and make myself sweat a little because it
- 45:56Speaker 2: just makes me feel so much better and have so
- 45:59Speaker 2: much more mental claes. So I would try to incorporate,
- 46:02Speaker 2: like as far as working out and doing a workout
- 46:04Speaker 2: with weights and stuff, or you know, you can get
- 46:06Speaker 2: the Peloton app, you know, and do that at your house.
- 46:09Speaker 5: I don't have.
- 46:10Speaker 3: I was gonna shamelessly plug that. I know.
- 46:11Speaker 1: Well, that's why I had to.
- 46:12Speaker 3: Do cycling instructor your cycling instructions.
- 46:15Speaker 2: I'm a cycling instructor on Peloton now too. That was
- 46:17Speaker 2: our big announcement for today. I'm to announce that now
- 46:20Speaker 2: I'm not I'm not, I'm not.
- 46:22Speaker 3: I'm just fuing.
- 46:23Speaker 2: But if you do get the you can get the
- 46:25Speaker 2: Peloton app and do these like they have five minute
- 46:28Speaker 2: apps classes, they have ten minutes, you could do forty minutes, pilates,
- 46:31Speaker 2: you can do like you just make a commitment and
- 46:33Speaker 2: do it with your husband. If you think that's a
- 46:35Speaker 2: good partnership. Do you think that is or would you
- 46:37Speaker 2: rather exercise alone?
- 46:39Speaker 3: I think that it's potential.
- 46:41Speaker 5: Like there have been times intermittently that we've both woken
- 46:45Speaker 5: up early and gone for a walk around our neighborhood together,
- 46:47Speaker 5: and we do enjoy walking, but it's for some reason
- 46:51Speaker 5: the mornings, my alarm clock will go off several times
- 46:54Speaker 5: and I'll just keep doing it until I absolutely have
- 46:58Speaker 5: to get up and going. And typically I think if
- 47:00Speaker 5: I were to walk every morning, i'd have to get
- 47:03Speaker 5: up at five and go. And I feel like that's
- 47:05Speaker 5: a normal time for people to get up and go.
- 47:08Speaker 5: But for some reason, in the mornings, my mind is
- 47:11Speaker 5: just like this isn't. I have a hard time I
- 47:15Speaker 5: guess in the morning's deciding that that's a that's a priority.
- 47:19Speaker 2: Right, But it's it is a priority because you're calling
- 47:21Speaker 2: into a podcast to talk about it, so you're gonna
- 47:23Speaker 2: make it a priority.
- 47:24Speaker 1: What do you use?
- 47:25Speaker 2: What's that? Is that a green like exercise ball that's
- 47:28Speaker 2: behind you? It is so fucking use it. I mean,
- 47:33Speaker 2: first of all, what kind of caffeine do you take
- 47:35Speaker 2: to get up in the morning?
- 47:36Speaker 1: Do you drink caffeine?
- 47:37Speaker 5: I drink a cup of coffee about twenty minutes after
- 47:40Speaker 5: I get up. I make sure I drink some water first,
- 47:42Speaker 5: or at least a few SIPs of water before I
- 47:44Speaker 5: go in on the coffee.
- 47:45Speaker 2: But I do well, that's healthy, that's a healthy habit.
- 47:47Speaker 2: But why do you really have to wake up at
- 47:49Speaker 2: five to exercise? What time do you have to be
- 47:51Speaker 2: at work?
- 47:52Speaker 5: So I try to get to work by seven thirty.
- 47:55Speaker 5: It usually ends up walking in around seven forty five
- 47:59Speaker 5: with traffic and every thing, but I try to get
- 48:01Speaker 5: I try to leave my house by six forty five.
- 48:04Speaker 2: And then okay, well that is pretty early. That's probably
- 48:06Speaker 2: why you're fucking tired. I mean, most people go to
- 48:09Speaker 2: work around nine for an office job, and you get
- 48:12Speaker 2: done at five pm or six pm.
- 48:14Speaker 5: I typically try to leave work by four thirty, try
- 48:18Speaker 5: and skip some of the traffic, and then I'll get
- 48:20Speaker 5: home usually around five thirty five forty.
- 48:25Speaker 1: I know, for me, I have to work out in
- 48:27Speaker 1: the mornings to really get it done.
- 48:28Speaker 2: So it really you have to kind of experiment with
- 48:30Speaker 2: your personality because it sounds schedule wise like it might
- 48:33Speaker 2: be more prudent for you to get home from work
- 48:36Speaker 2: and then go for a power walk around five. It's
- 48:38Speaker 2: the perfect time. It's before dinner, you know what I mean.
- 48:41Speaker 1: You get home, go for a walk, reflect on the
- 48:43Speaker 1: day's activities, and then figure out a workout that you
- 48:46Speaker 1: could do like two or three days a week. But
- 48:49Speaker 1: I think it's important a health wise to keep your
- 48:51Speaker 1: body moving every single day, you know what I mean.
- 48:54Speaker 1: And then it becomes kind of addictive.
- 48:56Speaker 2: In a great way, Like there's you know, you don't
- 48:58Speaker 2: want to be exercising for three hours day and no
- 49:00Speaker 2: one's suggesting that, but you need to pick a time
- 49:03Speaker 2: and commit to whatever time you think it's going to
- 49:06Speaker 2: be more feasible to actually follow through. And maybe that
- 49:09Speaker 2: is when you get home from work, if it's not
- 49:11Speaker 2: during your lunch break, or if it's not at five
- 49:13Speaker 2: in the morning, it's dark at five in the morning,
- 49:15Speaker 2: So like, I can understand why that would be hard
- 49:17Speaker 2: to get up and start exercising. So let's figure out
- 49:20Speaker 2: what time makes the most sense for you. What time
- 49:22Speaker 2: do you think that is.
- 49:23Speaker 5: Historically, I've definitely leaned towards you know, getting off work,
- 49:28Speaker 5: stopping by the gym, doing whatever it is I do,
- 49:31Speaker 5: whether it be a group workout class or an elliptical staremaster,
- 49:37Speaker 5: whatever it may be. Like I used to be really
- 49:40Speaker 5: good about doing that, and then I think, just over
- 49:44Speaker 5: the last few years, I've kind of lost my way
- 49:47Speaker 5: in a gym, like I don't necessarily know what I
- 49:51Speaker 5: should be, like what I should be focusing on. I
- 49:53Speaker 5: kind of walk in and I'm like, Okay, what do
- 49:55Speaker 5: I want to do today? And then I spend twenty
- 49:57Speaker 5: minutes looking on Pinterest for workout to do at the
- 50:00Speaker 5: gym for this muscle group, and then I end up,
- 50:04Speaker 5: you know, doing that for a while and I feel
- 50:05Speaker 5: really good about it, but I guess I haven't been
- 50:09Speaker 5: successful in making that an weekly like scheduled thing.
- 50:15Speaker 1: Okay, well you're gonna do that. Now.
- 50:16Speaker 2: You're gonna write it down that you're gonna exercise. You're
- 50:18Speaker 2: gonna do a workout three times a week, and you're
- 50:21Speaker 2: gonna do a nice walk, whether it's at the gym,
- 50:23Speaker 2: whether it's the elliptical, three times a week, you're gonna
- 50:26Speaker 2: do twenty minutes on an elliptical, on a treadmill or
- 50:29Speaker 2: a bike, whatever kind of cardio. And then three times
- 50:32Speaker 2: a week, either they could be on the same day
- 50:35Speaker 2: or whatever, you're gonna do a class. You could do
- 50:37Speaker 2: a pilates class, you could do weight training class. You
- 50:40Speaker 2: write it down. I am going to commit to this,
- 50:42Speaker 2: and every single morning you're writing it down and keeping
- 50:45Speaker 2: a diary of what you're doing so that you're accountable.
- 50:48Speaker 2: And if your husband decides to come along for the
- 50:50Speaker 2: ride or can join you in any of those activities, great,
- 50:52Speaker 2: But I think you should go from work, commit to
- 50:55Speaker 2: three days a week that you're gonna leave work and.
- 50:57Speaker 1: Go straight to the gym. You don't even have to
- 50:59Speaker 1: spend a whole hour. How we're there. You can go there,
- 51:01Speaker 1: jump on the elliptical for twenty minutes minute and leave.
- 51:04Speaker 1: Just get into the habit of forming a habit.
- 51:07Speaker 4: Yeah, a lot of gyms have either an app or
- 51:09Speaker 4: a program where they'll like give you a list of
- 51:12Speaker 4: like here's what you do Monday, Wednesday and Friday, and
- 51:14Speaker 4: it's like twenty minutes of maybe strength exercises on different
- 51:17Speaker 4: machines or using free weights, and like it's all done
- 51:20Speaker 4: for you, Like you don't have to think about anything.
- 51:22Speaker 4: So ask at your gym and see if they have that.
- 51:24Speaker 3: I also thank you.
- 51:25Speaker 4: A workout buddy might be helpful here too, because your
- 51:29Speaker 4: husband might not be the workout buddy you need. You
- 51:31Speaker 4: might need somebody, Like if I don't show up so
- 51:33Speaker 4: and so I was gonna be like sitting there pissed
- 51:35Speaker 4: at me, So like I gotta get my ass over.
- 51:36Speaker 6: There a workout buddy though, And like, especially with your husband,
- 51:40Speaker 6: like it can be a double edged sword, like it
- 51:42Speaker 6: might motivate you, but it also will be if he's
- 51:45Speaker 6: not in the mood and he's like, oh, let's skip today.
- 51:47Speaker 6: You're going to be susceptible to falling into that habit,
- 51:50Speaker 6: so I try to be on your own journey.
- 51:53Speaker 5: Absolutely, he and I have definitely gone back and forth
- 51:56Speaker 5: like hey, let's do this, and he'll be like, I
- 51:58Speaker 5: don't feel like it.
- 51:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's gotta be yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
- 52:02Speaker 2: And also the exercise will permeate into your life in
- 52:06Speaker 2: other ways. You're gonna finish your thank you cards, You're
- 52:08Speaker 2: gonna get all that shit together because you're gonna have
- 52:10Speaker 2: I've done that.
- 52:11Speaker 5: Actually, I day great and just got them mailed out
- 52:15Speaker 5: this week, so I'm really proud of that. But it's
- 52:17Speaker 5: also like kind of kicking myself in the ass because
- 52:21Speaker 5: it took me seven months.
- 52:22Speaker 1: But that's okay.
- 52:23Speaker 4: You have a year, so you are several months ahead.
- 52:26Speaker 2: You're great, It done okay. And also I want you
- 52:28Speaker 2: to write the sentence down to yourself. Write it down.
- 52:31Speaker 2: I am a powerful, strong woman and I am going
- 52:34Speaker 2: to become more powerful and more strong.
- 52:37Speaker 1: Yes, okay, and that's what you're gonna do.
- 52:40Speaker 2: And write down your schedule for the week, what you're
- 52:43Speaker 2: gonna do, and you're gonna be able to take days
- 52:45Speaker 2: off and you're gonna be able to get motivated. But
- 52:47Speaker 2: write down the days Monday, Wednesday, Friday. I'm going to
- 52:50Speaker 2: the gym straight from work, even if it's for a
- 52:52Speaker 2: half an hour. You're going to just get into the
- 52:55Speaker 2: habit of forming a habit.
- 52:57Speaker 1: It's as simple as that.
- 52:58Speaker 2: And once you do that for three weeks, you're going
- 53:00Speaker 2: to want to keep doing it, and you're going to
- 53:02Speaker 2: want to get stronger, and you're going to see the
- 53:03Speaker 2: result and you're going to feel healthier and you're going
- 53:06Speaker 2: to feel more motivated, and it's all going to work out.
- 53:08Speaker 1: So this is your pep talk. Okay, thank you so much, Chelsea.
- 53:12Speaker 1: You're welcome.
- 53:13Speaker 4: All right, Thanks Brittany, bye bye, Thank you all so much. Thanks.
- 53:19Speaker 1: I like these questions. I'm so lazy, I can't get
- 53:22Speaker 1: out of bed. What do I do? Get out of bed?
- 53:24Speaker 3: Get out of that?
- 53:25Speaker 2: Do you know how grateful we are able to be
- 53:27Speaker 2: able bodied and have the ability to move our bodies?
- 53:31Speaker 3: Like?
- 53:32Speaker 2: We have to remember that not everybody can do that.
- 53:35Speaker 2: You know, you have full utilization of your body. You
- 53:37Speaker 2: better be fucking using it and it.
- 53:39Speaker 3: Only gets more limited the older you get.
- 53:41Speaker 1: Yeah, and laziness gets more laziness.
- 53:44Speaker 2: You know, if you're lazy and you don't yeah, I mean,
- 53:47Speaker 2: I don't like to call anyone lazy, but some people
- 53:49Speaker 2: just are, you know.
- 53:51Speaker 1: And then what well, and on that note, we're going
- 53:53Speaker 1: to take a little break and oh, come back to Okay,
- 53:56Speaker 1: we'll be right back.
- 54:00Speaker 2: Okay, we're back with Cody Rigsby TV Magic.
- 54:07Speaker 1: So you can catch Cody's podcast, Tactful Pettiness.
- 54:10Speaker 2: It's tact full pettiness anywhere you got your podcast and
- 54:14Speaker 2: you can hear him talk about a bevy of different things.
- 54:17Speaker 1: Cody was a delight to meet you.
- 54:20Speaker 2: I'm sure I'll gout in you somewhere or somewhere somehow sometime.
- 54:24Speaker 3: I hope.
- 54:25Speaker 4: So all right, and where can people find you on
- 54:27Speaker 4: socials and stuff?
- 54:28Speaker 6: Cody at Cody Riggsby on Instagram at Cody Underscore. Rigs
- 54:31Speaker 6: me on TikTok because some bitch took my name before
- 54:33Speaker 6: I could get it. That's fine, not a bitch.
- 54:35Speaker 2: Okay, Thanks Cody, Thank you, Cody, have a great day.
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