340: How I Lost 20 Pounds, Healed Trauma and Grief, and Discovered the Strange World of LA Cuddle Puddles | Ben Gleib
The Genius Life
Max Lugavere
4.7 • 4.7K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 87 minutes
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Ben Gleib is a comedian, writer, and actor. NOTE: This episode contains explicit language!
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| 0:00.0 | What a family, it's episode 340 of the Genius Life, let's go. |
| 0:07.0 | What's poppin' friends, welcome to another episode of The Show, I'm your host Max Lugavir |
| 0:20.6 | a filmmaker, health and science journalist, and New York Times best-selling author. |
| 0:24.0 | I've dedicated my life to unraveling the science behind how our choices, including what |
| 0:27.4 | we eat and how we live, affect our cognitive and physical performance, how we feel, our |
| 0:31.9 | health span and our risk for disease. |
| 0:34.5 | This podcast is all about how to live in the optimal state, which I call living like a |
| 0:38.2 | genius. |
| 0:39.2 | On today's episode of The Show, I'm super excited to introduce you to my friend Ben Glebe. |
| 0:44.3 | Ben is an American actor, comedian and writer. |
| 0:48.6 | He is also one of the co-hosts of the YouTube channel The Young Turks, and has a number |
| 0:54.6 | of comedy specials online that you can check out, aside from being just an overall brilliant |
| 0:59.4 | and hilarious dude. |
| 1:00.8 | I wanted to get Ben in to talk about a number of topical topics, if you will. |
| 1:06.6 | For one, he recently, very recently, lost over 20 pounds in a pretty short period of time, |
| 1:13.3 | so I wanted to get him a show to go over his methods for doing so, which may be helpful |
| 1:20.7 | to some of you out there. |
| 1:22.2 | Of course, we live in a time of widespread overweight and obesity, so definitely a conversation |
| 1:27.5 | worth having. |
| 1:28.5 | We also talk about alcohol. |
| 1:30.1 | We talk about the role of comedians in society and dating in Los Angeles. |
| 1:35.4 | In fact, both him and I share an experience that we had dating or at least attempting |
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