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.

I have an incredibly large extended family. Entirely on my wife's side, her parents were extremely

active pro creators. For years at family gatherings, I felt like a visitor. Eventually though, I got a

new brother-in-law named Duncan, who I suppose probably felt like a visitor at first too.

I recognized his like-mindedness immediately and we became fast friends.

Holiday gatherings were transformed from pure consumptive gluttony into a chance to discuss

Hakimbe, Richard Rordi or Derrida. Duncan received an MPH and epidemiology from UCLA and was one of

the first people I really opened up to about my concerns with COVID-19. Please enjoy this talk

with my brother-in-law Duncan. It is official. Do you mind if just for the purposes of everybody else,

kind of backtrack and take everybody through my kind of thought process, which even led to this

conversation, and then we'll just have the conversation? Totally. I have a lot of opinions on a lot of

things that I have no education in, like economics and politics and morality and philosophy and all

of this, but I do try to gather as much data as I can. I kept hitting this hiccup where I'm looking

around going, we've stopped. We've shut down such a huge part of normal life for this thing.

And I'm being told in the news that millions of people are going to die. But then when I look at

certain things that it seems like that we don't really mind if a lot of people die from,

you know, just throwing it out there, heart disease. Kills a shit ton of people. We subsidize beef

and corn, which I think probably plays a factor in that. And nothing ever gets shut down due to it.

Cancer kills a lot of people. We put a lot of money into handling cancer, but we never would

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