469: Marching Band Fitness
The Dumbbells
Headgum
4.9 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
Erin welcomes the hilarious Amber Nelson (Brighter Side and SPUN cohost) to the weight room. They talk growing up in the woods, surviving summer marching band practice in Louisiana, boxing and finally finding the balance of fitness and nutrition.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a headgum podcast. |
| 0:12.0 | This is Aaron McGowan, |
| 0:13.5 | and writing solo today here on the dumbbells, |
| 0:19.3 | a comedy fitness podcast admitted to bringing you inspiration, motivation, |
| 0:25.4 | and sometimes information. Hey, dumbbells, let's get dumb, let's get dumb. |
| 0:34.7 | Hey, guys, it's Aaron McGowan Signs here alone in the dumbbells weight room. Is it echoey or is it just me? |
| 0:44.1 | You guys, I have a very fun interview today. Very funny comedian, podcaster, actor, Amber Nelson. |
| 0:53.6 | She has a show coming up here in L if you guys are around April 3rd, half hour, very funny |
| 1:01.5 | stand-up, lyric Hyperion come through. |
| 1:04.1 | It will be lit. |
| 1:06.6 | Let's get to the interview. |
| 1:09.7 | Welcome to the weight room, Amber Nelson. |
| 1:15.9 | What's up, girl? |
| 1:17.1 | Hi, I'm so excited to be here, and I'm honestly, like, honored and privileged that you asked me because you're such a, fitness guru and you look incredible and you've always |
| 1:28.4 | been so strong inside and out. Oh my God. That's very kind. I was like Amber and I have talked |
| 1:36.0 | at a lot of parties about fitness and now we can actually sit and really get into it. Do you realize |
| 1:44.1 | that? We have talked about |
| 1:45.3 | fitness in a lot of parties. Fitness and astrology. I think I asked you what you're rising and you're |
| 1:50.6 | a Scorpio rising. That is true. Yes. Wait, which one is my rising? You're a Scorpio rising and you were |
| 1:56.8 | wearing like an all black like cat girl outfit and I was like of course you're a scorpio rising |
| 2:01.9 | oh my gosh yeah that does make some sense I'm having to look into it more are I think scorpio's |
| 2:10.0 | good a bad rap no I like scorpios people like um I think they think of them as like too emotionally intense, but I think they're just in touch |
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