150: Max on his Career, Politics, Veganism, Dating, Drugs, Relationships, and Mental Health | Max Lugavere and Ari Mannis
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 29 January 2021
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, something different! Max is interviewed by comedian Ari Mannis about his career, family, dating, politics, money, drugs, nutrition, and mental health.
Ari is the host of the Unlicensed Therapy podcast and can be seen touring all over either by himself or opening for comedians such as Michael Kosta, Andrew Santino, Dan Soder, Erik Griffin, Tony Hinchcliffe, Theo Von, and Pauly Shore.
We use the (very) occasional expletive. If you are sensitive, do not listen!
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| 0:00.0 | Happy Friday Family, welcome to bonus episode 150 of the Genius Life. |
| 0:18.9 | What's going on everybody? |
| 0:19.9 | Happy Friday, how you doing? |
| 0:21.0 | My name is Max Lugovier, I'm a filmmaker, health and science journalist, |
| 0:23.6 | and author of The New York Times, bestselling book, Genius Hoots, and The Genius Life. |
| 0:26.9 | This is a very special bonus episode of the show, and it entails me actually being interviewed by my good friend, |
| 0:34.2 | Ari Manis. |
| 0:35.2 | Ari is a comedian, he is the host of the Unlicensed Therapy Podcast, |
| 0:42.6 | and I got to know him because back when I first started recording video versions of my show, |
| 0:49.1 | I used his podcast studio, a podcast studio that he runs called Melrose Podcasts |
| 0:55.0 | in West Hollywood, California. |
| 0:56.6 | They have the best technology and they have a great studio that I was able to rent from Ari, |
| 1:03.4 | and that's how I got to know him. |
| 1:05.6 | And he's a really funny dude. |
| 1:08.0 | As I mentioned, he's a comedian, he tours all around the US doing stand-up, |
| 1:11.5 | he's opened many times for Theo Vaughan, who's a super popular comedian, |
| 1:16.8 | and Ari invited me to be on his podcast recently, Unlicensed Therapy. |
| 1:22.3 | And I had such a great time chatting with him, and I thought that he asked such good questions, |
| 1:26.8 | and we had such good, I guess, conversational chemistry that I was inspired to upload the conversation |
| 1:33.9 | that we had to my podcast. |
| 1:36.8 | So, for all of you fans of The Genius Life out there, I am excited to present this episode in |
| 1:44.1 | which I'm being interviewed by my friend, comedian Ari Manis. |
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