Self-Help is Bullsh*t (But I Still Feel Fat)
Sickboy
CBC
4.8 • 524 Ratings
🗓️ 12 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
This week, we're joined by legendary filmmaker and noted curmudgeon Alan Zweig. He’s spent his career being unflinchingly honest about every insecurity in the book; loneliness, obsession, failure, but he’s always avoided the one thing he admits he thinks about most: his weight. Now, he's finally forcing himself to talk about it with his new podcast, "Tubby," which he perfectly describes as "a self-help podcast for those of us that can’t help ourselves." We get into the weeds of that "inner tubby" feeling, why the mirror is the "devil," whether this is all just a "character flaw," and if being uncomfortable in your own skin is the secret source of all our other hang-ups. This is a hilarious, sad, and deeply human chat about what it's like to feel fat, even when you're not.
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| 0:00.0 | It's becoming pretty clear that U.S. President Donald Trump is ripping up the political |
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| 0:46.5 | Yeah. Well, let's start here. Alan, you've got a new podcast. |
| 0:49.2 | It's called Tubby. |
| 0:50.5 | Love the name. |
| 0:51.5 | It's described as a self-help show for people who can't help themselves. |
| 0:58.2 | I'm just going to interrupt. Jump in there, yeah. For some reason, I don't quite understand this, |
| 1:05.8 | but my collaborators wrote it in some odd grammatical thing. It's a self-help podcast for people who can't |
| 1:17.6 | help ourselves. I don't understand, but somehow that makes it more inclusive. But yes, |
| 1:25.4 | okay. Right. I think if you say themselves, you get canceled today. |
| 1:30.8 | But I mean, I don't know. |
| 1:34.4 | It's very risky territory. |
| 1:36.6 | So, I mean, speaking of all that, you've built a career on being extremely honest about things like insecurity and obsession |
| 1:48.2 | and loneliness. |
| 1:50.1 | But in the description of the show, it says, wait, is the one thing that you haven't |
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