Kimberly Dark is much more comfortable being fat than Alan is. The author of Fat, Pretty, and Soon to Be Old helps Alan get used to using the word fat, discusses how horrific it is to be a fat girl in our culture, and works with Alan to figure out whether or not it is ok to fat shame yourself.  

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Tubby is hosted by Alan Zweig (@alan.robert.irwin) and produced by Kevin Sexton (@soundofsexton). Our Executive Producer is Alan Black (@alanpaulblack). Our podcast artwork was illustrated by Brett Lamb (brettlamb.com). Original Scoring by Michael Zweig (@zweig_michael). Our theme song is “The Fat Man”, Performed by Fats Domino, Written by Fats Domino and Dave Bartholomew, Courtesy of Capitol Records, LLC under license from Universal Music Canada Inc. 

Alan's new film Love, Harold is the Centrepiece Feature at the Rendezvous With Madness Film Festival. It will have its Ontario premiere in Toronto on October 24. Get your tickets here.

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