Ron Funches on comedy, losing 140 pounds, his love of wrestling, Joe Rogan

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 3.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2021

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Ron Funches is a stand-up comedian, writer, and actor known for his work on Trolls, Curb Your Enthusiasm, New Girl, Undateable, Transparent, and numerous other TV shows and films. He joins Chris Van Vliet from his home in Los Angeles to talk about how he broke into comedy, getting his first big break in the business, performing on Conan O'Brien, his voice acting work, how he was able to lose 140 pounds, his experience attending wrestling school, his podcast called "Gettin' Better with Ron Funches" and much more! Support the show by supporting our sponsors! Get your energy back, sleep better, and block out the unhealthy effects of blue light with BLUblox. Get free shipping worldwide and 15% off by going to https://blublox.com/CVV or enter code CVV15 at checkout. If you enjoyed this episode, could I ask you to please consider leaving a short review on Apple Podcast/iTunes? It takes less than a minute and makes a huge difference in helping to spread the word about the show and also to convince some hard-to-get guests. For more information about Chris and INSIGHT go to https://chrisvanvliet.com Follow CVV on social media: Instagram: instagram.com/ChrisVanVliet Twitter: twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet Facebook: facebook.com/ChrisVanVliet YouTube: youtube.com/ChrisVanVliet Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	What's up y'all, it's Druski and I've teamed up with Mountain Dew to produce a hilarious
0:04.7	new basketball podcast called The Duzon with Druski.
0:07.8	Learn the back stories of your favorite ballers and celebrities like your mom Murray.
0:11.2	You have like a favorite team, was it the rappers at the time or no?
0:14.6	Was the rappers even started on the top?
0:16.3	Come on bro.
0:17.3	I ain't that old, man.
0:18.3	You're talking like I'm 50.
0:19.3	Taylor Rokes, Asian Wilson and many more.
0:21.8	You won't want to miss this.
0:23.2	Coming to The Duzon with Druski on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever you listen to podcasts.
0:35.5	Welcome to the show, good to see you.
0:37.4	I'm Chris Feinvlite, if you happen to be a regular listener of Ron Funch's podcast,
0:42.1	getting better with Ron Funch's and this happens to be your first time here.
0:45.8	Thank you so much for joining us.
0:47.5	I'm an Emmy Award-winning TV host and I'm fascinated with finding out how people are
0:52.4	wired to achieve greatness.
0:54.7	On each episode we have in-depth conversations and reverse engineer the habits and techniques
1:00.0	of the world's top athletes, actors, entrepreneurs, comedians.
1:04.8	You name it.
1:05.8	If they're the best at what they do, I want to get their insight so we can all apply
1:10.2	it to our own life.
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