it's "Vanity Fair."

Hello, my name is Andrew Rea,

I make a YouTube series called Binging with Babish,

and this is everything I do in a day.

I set an alarm every morning for 7:30 in the am

and then another alarm at 7:45,

and then another one at 8:00, 8:05, 8:07, 8:08, 8:09, 8:10.

The song that I wake up to every morning

is called "Off Center" by Emily King.

It starts really low key

and then it builds, and builds, and builds,

and by the end of it it's this rockin' anthem.

You're like, "I'm gonna start the day!"

Even though it generally takes me

like another hour and a half solid to get out of bed.

The first thing I do once I get out of bed

is make myself some coffee.

I'm kind of a pour over nut.

I drink my coffee black.

I drink it on my Chesterfield couch

'cause it makes me feel like a grownup of some kind.

And I listen to NPR because really NPR brings me

up to date in 13 minutes, can't go wrong.

So I'd say it's around 9:30

that I'm sort of awake and cognizant,

aware, coffeed up, gears are turning

and that's the time that I begin my morning workout.

It only takes about 45 minutes, hour,

a lot of calisthenics, lot of body movement.

And then I begin my morning care routine.

I have to shower every day.

I'm not one of those people that can skip a shower.

I feel so gross if I don't shower.

I feel slick, I feel oily.

You didn't wanna know that.

Beard routine, every day, trim, shampoo,

condition, oil, brush, 100 strokes, every day.

Don't skip it gentlemen.

I shaved my head, the whole dome gets shaved.

I use a razor.

I don't use a trimmer no more.

I brush my teeth for two minutes.

I floss using both string floss and brush picks.

I've never had a cavity, and I never will.

I moisturize from head to toe,

positively saturated with moisture.

I'd say that takes about 30, 45 minutes.

I'm pretty quick for all the things that I have to do

to make myself not look disgusting.

I wear one of two outfits.

I have two uniforms.

One is for the show, which is a button-up shirt,

a black apron, and the other is this.

It's a black or blue Henley with jeans.

That's all I wear unless I'm going to a funeral

or my high-school prom.

The only fashion statement that I make is with my watch.

I have six watches that I choose from,

so that's how I express myself

is with a glint of happenin' on my wrist.

Once I'm clothed and coffeed,

I commence the consumption of breakfast.

For the most part, I'm eating a fried, over-easy egg

on a piece of sprouted wheat toast.

I wanna little fiber, I wanna little protein,

I wanna little hot sauce.

It's the three parts of a balanced breakfast.

So after I'm breakfasted,

I start my day by commuting to work, which is my kitchen.

Work for me is a few different things.

It's either editing footage

from something I shot the day before,

or it's grocery shopping for an upcoming episode,

or it's shooting which is done right here.

I'm in the Binging with Babish kitchen.

And primarily I'm recreating foods

from movies and television,

so typically it's pretty goofy stuff,

fantastical foods or gross-out foods or whatever.

Or me trying to make a good version

of something gross from movies or tv.

Or my other show Basics with Babish is just basic cookery,

so just showin' you how to make quesadillas,

showin' you how to make bread.

I'll break for lunch

hopefully eating something that I just made for the show.

If it didn't come out right

or if it's something intentionally gross,

then I'll be making something really quick

like a chicken salad,

a little sandwich here or there, a little frittata,

or I'm ordering in lunch

from one of my favorite sort of

like healthy protein and two vegetables kind of places,

your Dig Inn, your Sweetgreen, you know,

salads and stuff like that.

I'm tryin' to be healthy, I'm tryin' to be good.

So then I'll begin filming for one of my YouTube series,

and depending on the complexity of what's going on,

depending on how many tries it takes me to get it right,

that could take 20 minutes, that could take two hours,

that could take two days.

I fly by the seat of my pants on a regular basis.

Come dinner time, I've generally been cookin' all day,

so cooking, generally not something

that I wanna get into at that point.

I'm tryin' to keep it healthy,

so I'm either eating leftovers from that day's shoot,

if it's not too unreasonably healthy,

or I'm ordering in something relatively vegetarian

or nice clean proteins and vegetables.

And then on the weekend, all bets are off.

I'm ordering chicken parmesan, I'm drinking whisky.

I do so much moving during the week,

let me sit still on the weekend.

Please, let me sit still.

After dinner, if I'm being good, is a mug of tea,

kava tea or green tea or something like that

with honey and lemon.

If I'm being bad,

it's several glasses of whisky

and something deep fried and covered in cheese.

So, I can't stand it when anybody does my dishes for me.

I feel terrible, so I'm always doin',

every dish you ever see me make on the show,

and I make a mess makin' this show,

every single dish I'm doin' myself.

Then, once I'm done with the dishes,

it's into the editing room.

If it's Monday or Tuesday, I'm in there editing until,

I don't even wanna think about it,

I'm in there editing until the next day.

Sometimes I'm stuck in there for 12 hours

just doing voice-over and cutting and recutting

and color correcting and doing graphics.

It's where I find my flow state.

It's where I focus in, and nothing else in the world exists

is when I'm toiling away at the computer

just cutting and editing and coloring

and doing finishing and all that good stuff, sound mixing.

That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

So I'm done shooting, I'm done editing, it's evening time.

Depending on how much I have to do,

it's either 6:00 pm or 2:00 am,

and let's call it 10:00 pm average.

I'm digging into one of my leisure activities.

That's gonna be readin' a book,

usually something that I can brag about

or something really trashy that I actually enjoy.

I'm playing some video game

that makes me feel like I have superpowers

or where I'm killin' bad guys

or I'm rewatching one of the four or five shows

that I rewatch endlessly like Frasier or The West Wing

or Star Trek: Next Generation or Parks and Rec.

Just rewatching it the way most people

listen to music over and over and over.

It's also a time for me to catch up socially a little bit,

so I'm hittin' the Binging with Babish subreddit.

I'm going on YouTube Comments

and seeing what people wanna see

on future episodes of Binging with Babish,

checking my emails,

and signing whatever paperwork needs to be signed,

and reading through new brand deals,

and talking with my co-workers.

And then, once all that stuff is done,

I talk with my family and friends for like five minutes.

For the most part, we're saying, "

Hey, what's up, nothin' workin', what's up with you?"

"Nothin', workin'."

"All right dude, see you this weekend."

So generally in the hour or two before bed,

let's say like midnight, 1:00 am,

that's when I'm on my laptop

tryin' to figure out recipes for the next day,

figuring out what groceries I need,

anything else that I need for the next day,

gettin' it all ready,

dottin' all my ts and crossing all my is.

Sometimes before I go to sleep,

a very meditative activity for me is sharpening my knives.

It probably takes 15, 20 minutes.

It's just a great little unwinding activity

at the end of the day.

Something mindless I can do

and just makes a very relaxing beautiful sound

Whick, I can't do a very good impression of it.

Immediately before bed, I just brush and floss my teeth.

I mean, like I said I take good care of the toofers.

Then going into bed, I sleep in my skivvies.

I sleep in a veritable icebox.

I have the AC cranked up high,

and I have all different kinds of fans going

and the tv going 'cause I have tinnitus

so I just hear ringing if it's too quiet.

And it's pretty chaotic.

It's a pretty wild scene my going to sleep in bed.

Takes me anywhere from I'd say 30 minutes

to three hours to fall asleep.

I'm terrible at falling asleep.

I function best on like five, six hours of sleep.

It cannot be good for me.

All I know is that when I wake up in the morning,

and I didn't wake up a few times throughout the night,

I'm like huh, I got a good night's sleep last night.

[laughs]

That's the routine I'm in.

What are you gonna do?

Change, I don't think so.

Well, I'm Andrew Rea, and that's everything I do in a day.

Thank you "Vanity Fair" for helping me realize

that I need to make some positive changes

in my schedule [laughs].