About this episode

Ilana Glazer interviews Andrew Rea about his journey as a YouTuber and his personal transformation through mental health treatments.

On this week’s episode, Ilana sits down with Andrew Rea, the self-made YouTuber behind two of the platform’s largest and most influential cooking shows—BINGING WITH BABISH and BASICS WITH BABISH—claiming over 10.5 million subscribers. Andrew shares the radical personal transformation that followed his discovery of anti-depressants as well as mushrooms, boosting his self confidence, and prompting the creative a-ha moment where he began producing YouTube videos by combining his two life long lo...

Topics covered

• YouTube
• cooking shows
• personal transformation
• mental health
• creativity

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