Hi, I'm Ethan Sopli, welcome to American Blood. 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 is entertainment, food is sport, food as fuel.

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

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Today on American Glutton, my guest is Doug Boepst. He is the host of the adversity

advantage podcast. You can find him on Instagram at Doug Boepst. Doug Boepst, welcome to the American

Glutton podcast. Ethan, thanks for having me, man. Dude, you have a really interesting story,

and I just really want to share it with the people who listen to my podcast, but you say going

to prison was one of or if not the best thing that ever happened to you, please tell me this story.

It was because when I entered my incarceration for felony drug charges, I was heavily addicted to

opiates. I was doing hundreds of milligrams of oxycott in per day. I was selling tons of pot to not

only support my habit, but to also make money. I was a convicted felon. Like I mentioned, I was

hopeless. I was having suicidal thoughts, tons of anxiety. And really, I was just emotionally,

spiritually, physically, and mentally broken. But what ended up happening to me was when I entered

the gate to the detention center, I cried because I didn't want to go in for obvious reasons.

And when I left, I cried because I didn't want to leave. I experienced that a little bit

leaving rehab for the last time, where I was just like, I mean, it's scary because like,

oh my God, I've kind of figured out life within these parameters, within these confines,

and with these barriers set up, I can do life really well. And I'm working this program. And then

it's like, I'm leaving this structure. It's scary. It's bitter sweet. There's a lot to leaving

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