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April 25, 2025 13 mins
PUMPED is the wild, unfiltered bonus aftershow of Show Pony, the hilarious rewatch series of Bravo’s WORKOUT. Hosted by comedian and reality TV veteran John Arthur Hill and fitness enthusiast Eric Maxwell, this weekly podcast is part fitness diary, part gay chaos, and part comedy confessional. Each episode, John and Eric share their personal workout routines, challenges, and goals — from lifting and cardio to body image and transformation. Expect honest fitness talk, gym fails, hot takes on health trends, and plenty of jokes. It’s a queer comedy fitness podcast with reality TV roots and no filter. If you love funny workout podcasts, gay fitness content, Bravo nostalgia, or you just want to hear two hot messes try to better themselves and laugh about it — PUMPED is your new obsession.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome to show Pony Pumped. I'm John Hill and you
are Eric Maxwell. This is our bonus material. I think
we've really landed on something great. It's a fitness podcast
to accompany our journey of finding Jackie Warner while watching
Workout Season one. Who doesn't love a fitness podcast. We're

(00:30):
just a couple of guys talking about wellness and fitness.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I'm doing the best that I can.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Here are my questions. Did you work out this week? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (00:37):
I did?

Speaker 1 (00:38):
Did you get pumped?

Speaker 2 (00:39):
I kind of did. I went to berries.

Speaker 1 (00:41):
Let's go through day by day and say what we
did in terms of working out. I made a list. Okay,
I have a couple of trivia moments for you. Do
you know when the first spin class happened, who it
was created by, where it was created, when it was created?
You know anything about the origin of spin because we,
like you said to Barry's Ride, which is Barry's boot

(01:01):
camp but with spinning instead of running.

Speaker 2 (01:03):
I don't. I don't know. During the eighties was the eighties?

Speaker 1 (01:07):
Yes? Spinning slash indoor cycling was developed by South African
endurance bicycle racer Jonathan Goldberg in nineteen eighty seven. Yes,
I also just searched what is the most dangerous workout class.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Ever of all time?

Speaker 1 (01:20):
First I googled what workout class has killed the most people?
And that didn't give me great results. But the most
dangerous workout do you know what that is?

Speaker 2 (01:27):
The one that I went to was Rise Nation, But
I feel like that's not Is that the right answer?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
It's not the right but it's close. Box Rumble, Flatline
hell is that. Flat Line is a high intensity class
that combines extreme physical exertion with emotional and mental stress.
Flat Line, located in London, is designed to push participants
to their limits, including tasks like rope climbing, dead weightliftsing

(01:52):
and carrying weighted bars. I do all that stuff. It's
the emotional you'll die.

Speaker 2 (01:56):
Your heart will stop, okay.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
And also you know what else the list when you
search this conbody, Oh conbody is the convict workout. Okay,
let's go through our days and talk about what we
did for our fitness goals and journeys. Monday, seven forty,
I did Berry's Ride. I supped in work that day
at Barry's was arms.

Speaker 2 (02:20):
Charlie.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
If you're listening, Charlie, seven forty, that's my Berry's Ride class.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
We love Charlie, we do, and I took him yesterday.
But that's you took all of itmay No, not quite.
I am afraid of him though.

Speaker 1 (02:33):
I'm not afraid of him anymore, but I was for
a while.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
No if he told me to jump by saying how high?

Speaker 1 (02:39):
Yes, Charlie teaches Barry's Ride and I went to a
bodybuilding gym with my trainer, and that's his other job,
so I saw him in his other environment and it
was chilling.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
Yeah, I've seen some of the content that he's posted
from that other job. It looks like medieval torture devices.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
They're doing weird things, like they're throwing their butts over
their heads, inverting their vaginas all the way out.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
It kind of looks like surtasoulet. Like training train.

Speaker 1 (03:04):
My whole going to buries a lot. But I'm also
splitding my time between that and the bodybuilding class at
the CrossFit gym nearby. And it's talk about mental torture.
It buries. It doesn't matter if we talk to you,
because you don't want anybody to talk to you, because
you're all just sweating and listening to the thumping music.
But acrossfit, everyone's like socializing except you.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
I feel like it buries the same way I feel
like when I'm on a busy street where it's like
I just want to get from point A to point B.
I don't want to interact with anybody. I don't want
to accidentally touch anybody. I don't want to have any
interactions with anybody else me.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Either, And when I'm going from point A to point
B put my weights away. I get angry if somebody
can't move their ass out of my way.

Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
The good thing about CrossFit is that it does force
you to build character. You're doing shit you don't want
to do. You're forcing yourself to interact with people because
I would like to just never interact with any person
at all. And then I end up going crazy in
my mind. So I know I have to get around
a group of people, but I've been doing it for
like a month, and I just I've come up with
so many weird narratives in my head, like the hot

(04:04):
Hot trainer that I also have followed on Instagram for forever.
He talks to everyone butt me and looks through me
like I Am not even there, And.

Speaker 2 (04:12):
Do you want him to know that you're talking about this,
He's not good.

Speaker 1 (04:16):
If he does, he's never gonna say He's never gonna
say anything. It's just true. I like him a lot.
He's a great coach, he sweet. He remember my name
the first time I was there, but ever since then
just like doesn't say anything. I think it's just that
I want his attention and I'm met getting it.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
I think a lot of that's going to be in
your head exactly when I walk into I'm like, how
am I being perceived?

Speaker 1 (04:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:36):
Why do I do my hair? For my hair to
get sweat through the first three minutes of class? But
I still do it? Do you do your hair before class?

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:44):
I do?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
You know in LA sometimes I put on makeup before
the gym.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Do you put waterproof on or stuff that you know
is going to get like a little ran through?

Speaker 1 (04:51):
I like for it to I like to look a
little ran through.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
I just watched it TikTok tutorial of an amazing woman
who made makeup that she knew she was going to
get plowed in. So she was like, this is designed
to run and streak, and she was like, I know.
She's like, I have tips and tricks for waterproof, but
that's not what we're doing. And then she came back
on at the end of the TikTok to be like,
this is the.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
End result, but it wasn't done until she got Now,
was this the girl that did the one thousand man
gang bang?

Speaker 2 (05:18):
No, not at all.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
I just went down a rabbit hole of her Instagram.
I can't believe she's allowed us say these things on Instagram.
Do you know about this girl?

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, but I think there's a huge difference between the
censorship on TikTok versus like, I've been served crazy stuff
on Instagram.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
This girl's really she did a thousand guys, did a
twelve hour live stream of twelve hours and she posts
these like teasers about it, and she's like, I'm so
excited about the gang bang, and I'm really what I'm
most excited about is that she's like, I'm bringing these
barely legal girls to watch me, and when I see
the innocent drain out of their faces, that's what's gonna
get me off. That was dark, because like, I'm all

(05:55):
for it, Fine, have sex with one thousand guys, bring friends. Yeah,
it's good that first part, but the draining the innocence
out of the faces of the barely legal kid.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
That's what happens in hocus Pocus.

Speaker 3 (06:06):
Come little children wherever you are. A thousand guys today.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
Okay, Tuesday, I did bodybuilding. Anyway, what'd you do on
Tuesday to work out?

Speaker 2 (06:23):
I live in a fourth floor walk off. When I
moved into this apartment on the fourth floor with no elevator,
I knew. I was like, this is built in exercise
that you're gonna have to get no matter what.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
I have an elevator in LA and I never take
the stairs. And I'm on the fourth floor and I
take the stairs all the time here, But I just
like refuse. Tuesday, we did dips and slow lunges of bodybuilding.
My butt is still sore.

Speaker 2 (06:47):
Wait, don't you hate leg stuff?

Speaker 1 (06:49):
I do hateleg stuff because I had a meniscus surgery
and so she hurts.

Speaker 2 (06:54):
I feel more confident with the leg stuff than anything
with arms.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
Well, you're young and spry and you have your cartilage.

Speaker 2 (07:02):
I guess I'm just yeah, I guess I have a.

Speaker 1 (07:04):
Blown out meniscus. Like the way they describe it. Do
you know what a meniscus is? Is that on your head?

Speaker 2 (07:11):
It's that it's like a fin flexible membrane kind of barrier.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
Right, it's like a pussy lip in between your bones
and mine got blown out, tiny.

Speaker 2 (07:22):
Tiny hamburger patty.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Yes, like a Wendy's square patty. So yes, the legs stuff.
And when you're there, everyone's pushing it. They're all doing
insane amounts of weight. They're all like hmm, and I'm like.

Speaker 2 (07:35):
An amazing way to get injured.

Speaker 1 (07:37):
Agree. Also, these people are bringing dogs to the gym.
They're bringing babies to the gym. They have the off
fucking audacity to bring a baby to the gym. Yeah,
I don't know about that. It makes me it is
the baby working out. No, it's not even trying. It's
a lazy little fuck. What's your favorite workout? Like your
favorite exercise to do period?

Speaker 2 (07:56):
Do you know?

Speaker 1 (07:57):
Not gooning? Wait?

Speaker 2 (07:58):
I have two answers. On the bike. I just love
spin in general. I love spin because it feels like
dancerly and the music and like if it's a good
if it's a good strut, I just really really get
into it. But if I'm on the floor, do you
know what I love is mountain climbers.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
I can't do them because my toe.

Speaker 2 (08:16):
My toe is broken. It's a real case by case
on how much they would like encourage you to modify.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Let's talk about Wednesday. So that was your first time
going to a seven forty class, which I go to
almost every day.

Speaker 2 (08:26):
I've never been to a seven forty.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
I'm a morning worker outer yeal. I don't like that
I can only work out in the morning because I
don't want to be done.

Speaker 2 (08:33):
But you know what happened. I was really nervous about
losing energy and like stamina. And I told you IM,
like at two pm, three pm, I'm gonna feel rotted. Yeah,
and I did yesterday.

Speaker 1 (08:43):
No, did you feel energized? Yeah?

Speaker 2 (08:45):
Okay? And I went and saw a show after and
I didn't feel like crashing. I didn't feel flatliny at all.

Speaker 1 (08:51):
I want to change you. I want you to become
a morning person.

Speaker 2 (08:57):
I would go again. I would go again at seven forty.
It was fine. I like eating before and I don't
like eating right away because I don't want any like
sloshy tummy stuff. And I know a lot of people
say that you should fast when you work out in
the morning.

Speaker 1 (09:09):
It depends on your goal. I've heard that fasted cardio
in the morning is really good if you're really trying
to get lean and lose fat.

Speaker 2 (09:15):
My goal is to look like a sickly little doll
like Annabel.

Speaker 1 (09:18):
We can get you there by injecting you with munjaro. Okay,
my ass is still sore Thursday.

Speaker 2 (09:26):
You know what I love doing And I think you
told me that you hate this. When you get the
bands the resistance there is long ones that have like
the clampies on the end and you put your feet
through them, like kill me, and you like stretch your
legs out. Somebody in my love that. No, yeah, I
like it a lot.

Speaker 1 (09:41):
No, it's a flexibility thing. It's a cartilage thing. But
enjoy your youth.

Speaker 2 (09:46):
I don't like the little bands that are in a circle.
I love that because then they make you what squat?

Speaker 1 (09:50):
Yeah? I like that. No, yeah, it fires up your glutes.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
I don't. There's something about it that I find.

Speaker 1 (09:58):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
It doesn't maximize a slave for me.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
That's to maximize a slave slave. Oh a freak. I
didn't know what you meant. What are your goals? What
are your fitness goals right now? Realistically? Besides being like
Megan skinny, I think I.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Just like throw a bunch of movement out there into
the void, hoping that I see a difference than what
I look like. But no, I need it for anxiety.
What I do is when I'm on a bike, I
put my emails and slacks like in my mental like
projector of my mind, and I pretend that I'm biking
away from all of the emails and slacks.

Speaker 1 (10:31):
I don't want to look at Wow, that's profound, that's
really beautiful. I don't know what I think about anymore.
I just think of being in the moment. It helps
me stay present because I don't think of how much
I hate it or how much it hurts. I'm just like,
what can you do right now?

Speaker 2 (10:42):
I find it very meditative, and especially when I used
to do Soul cycle and it's forty five minutes on
a bike, I got a lot of good thinking done totally.
I remember one one.

Speaker 4 (10:54):
Time I took a class and at the end of
the class, I got off the bike and started crying
and said to my friend, I was like, I need
to have more sex.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
And I don't know why I thought that.

Speaker 4 (11:06):
I'm like my mind was wiped of everything and I
just is like I had this god moment on the bike.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
And did you end up having more sex? For sure? No,
so cycles ship for manifesting.

Speaker 2 (11:18):
I thought soul cycle was like a horny sexual place,
and it's not really. Because then Berries I learned.

Speaker 1 (11:24):
Like that was.

Speaker 2 (11:25):
I was like, I don't believe it's crazy.

Speaker 1 (11:30):
I've seen some weird stuff. I've seen some weird stuff,
and I've heard some weird things. I know a guy
who says he's in the in the bathroom stall in
between classes taking OOO.

Speaker 2 (11:41):
In New York.

Speaker 1 (11:42):
Yes, in that small little place. I think he might
have been lying.

Speaker 2 (11:46):
I go to berries so I can eat like a goblin.
That's the point and not feel bad about it.

Speaker 1 (11:51):
That's how they keep you in the cycle of capitalism,
because then you don't make any progress. You have to
keep going to berries, you keep eating. Who the fuck
has I think?

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I know me too.

Speaker 1 (12:01):
It's about enjoying life. I've had a pint of ice
cream for ability. I've had a pint of ice cream
every single day I've been in New York for the
past three weeks.

Speaker 2 (12:08):
That's really brave.

Speaker 1 (12:09):
And then I used to shame myself for it, and
then I'm like, whatever, I want to eat this and shot.

Speaker 2 (12:13):
We do shamelessly eat whatever I want. So like I'm
making jokes a lot of the time, but the reality
is I just I eat whatever delicious things I want,
and that's why I work out.

Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well, don't do ozembic because then the joy of eating
will be taken away.

Speaker 2 (12:26):
But if that's what someone wants to do, I think
they should.

Speaker 1 (12:28):
I mean you, okay, wow, I think this was really
entertaining and extremely compelling. Stay lock, stayloaded, stay pumped.

Speaker 2 (12:43):
And the next one will be pumped. But it's just
about face.

Speaker 1 (12:45):
Work, right, pumped, but face work, because I am going
to go have a consultation about filler under the eye.

Speaker 4 (12:51):
M m.

Speaker 2 (12:52):
I'm nodding, like I've never had a consultation before.

Speaker 1 (12:57):
More on that next time. I
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