Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Glutton. Outside of acting, my two favorite things

to do are diet and eat. I have a very complicated relationship with food and on this podcast,

we're going to talk about all of it. Food as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

I'll talk to experts and the average person, just like you and me.

Today, my guest on American Glutton is Bill Rapier. Bill is the owner and lead instructor

of American Tactical Shooting Instruction LLC. He has retired Navy SEAL and spent over

14 years at the Naval Special Warfare Development Group. I'm really excited to talk to Bill.

You can find him on Instagram at Amtact Shooting.

Bill Rapier, welcome to the American Glutton podcast. Ethan, thanks for grabbing me on.

So I've had the privilege of training with you and you always throw in some kind of a dynamic

exercise that puts together everything we've worked on into a drill that usually requires

physical exertion. And I was always really impressed that you did that. Number one.

And I always look at the things you do in your life, which to me are incredibly extreme.

Things that I could not fathom tackling. The modern minute-man program, the exercises,

where you and chainsaw go off into the woods for a couple of days and have 50 miles to cover

with heavy gear. So it was very surprising to me to come to hear that you are concerned at all

or have to be concerned at all with your diet. Oh, absolutely. And I don't mean in a way of like,

no, you just eat whatever you want. I never thought that. I thought of you as a healthy guy,

but you actually diet, which I found to be surprising. Yeah, it's one of those, you know,

as I might my back seems up on me the first time when I was 23 years old. And I had no clue what

was going on. I was on a trip down in Florida, a dive trip down there. And Pullman took me to

the hospital and he took X-rays, you know, without something cute. And they said, oh, yeah,

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