“Not to be dramatic, but this is something I genuinely hate about myself.”
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Journalist Leon Neyfakh takes a meticulous approach to the podcasts for which he is known — like Fiasco, which has been adapted into an Epix series that debuts September 19 — but he admits his attitude toward eating is a bit more … relaxed. “Eats like shit” is how he jokingly refers to his dietary habits. This week, while putting in the work on podcasts for Prologue Projects (the company he founded in 2018), he ate soft-boiled eggs, a huge club sandwich, pasta, burrata, steak, salmon, and a croissant-based frozen pizza that was “honestly amazing.”
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