John Hill
Appearances
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
The structure, the ritual, the group, the community, and then the elation at the end. It was just very similar to being raised in a Christian environment.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
Well, it just paralleled so much of it. The church for me growing up was not as much about having intellectual discussions. It was about community and going and showing up and having a schedule and then seeing the same people every day and joking with them. And then you all collectively get together and like, praise the Lord. And that is exactly like SoulCycle.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
People were, we would get there at the same time. We would have the same, like you would always go when your favorite preacher was preaching that whatever sermon or your favorite like lady from down the block was leading the worship service. Like you'd go to the favorite ones and like, then you'd all kind of get together. And then by the end of the ride, you're all praising the Lord.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
It was, it was rapturous. Everyone gets caught up in the spirit, slain in the Holy Spirit.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
And we had unlimited. And so when you hear that something's unlimited, you're like, oh, well, even if I don't want this, I'm going to take everything I can because I'm paying $100,000 to go to this fucking rehab. So I'm going to take this really expensive thing and just run it into the ground. So you start sort of going as like a bitter or just kind of a stick it to the man thing.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
Oh, yeah, like I'll go. And I would go twice a day. And it was something to do. I would smoke cigarettes. I would be smoking with the other guys in rehab. We would walk to the SoulCycle in Brooklyn. For something to do, it's either watch TV, eat pancakes, smoke cigarettes, nap, or do SoulCycle. And so we just did that because we wanted to feel like we were doing something.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
And so you just walk in and be like, okay, here we go. And then I got really into it. I became super obsessed.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
Even before I started getting super into fitness, the first year I got sober, I just... And a lot of people say this. I was walking from Williamsburg to Watch What Happens Live, my job at the time, across the Williamsburg Bridge to and from work. I just couldn't stop walking, listening to music. Your mind is active. It's like you wake up from being asleep from a horrible nightmare. And so...
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
when i got sober for real for real it was like making an amends to your body which you've trashed for years that for me was the that's how i can explain it the most that was like the first little kernel of it was like okay i have polluted my body i have treated it like the only gift we actually have in this world is the body we're given and i have treated it like trash And so what can I do?
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
You learn in sobriety and recovery, you learn to be gentle with yourself, to be kind to yourself, something you don't do as an addict. You're mean to yourself. You tell yourself you're a piece of shit. You're worthless. You're a failure. You say all those things. But when you get sober, you get a little recovery. You start feeling like, oh, maybe I'm good. Maybe there are good things about life.
Cult of Body & Soul
1. "Made in LA"
So it's easier to treat your body better. And then because we're addicts and compulsive, we take it to the extreme.