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.

These are the corona dispatches. I don't know what day of corona apocalyptic is. I don't know.

Honestly, what day of the week it is today because I've stopped paying attention.

There is so much on my mind right now about the world and how the world is functioning currently

and how the world will be functioning in the future. I guess it's all kind of up in the air.

I mean, I've gone down the dark road of thinking we're going to be in a deep great depression.

I think something like seven million Americans starved to death in the last great depression.

And maybe the idea of obesity in America will no longer be a factor because there won't be

any money to over you. But then I go that's not true because we can look around and see the

rates of obesity in impoverished areas in America and see that they're actually more prevalent there.

And the way the government subsidizes food that I just don't think that will be an issue. So

we won't come out the other side starving. I don't think. That's my hopeful stance from all of this.

We will survive it and we will not be starving. There's so many things to think about that it

becomes hard to really perceive other things that don't really have much to do with my life.

And in trying to see other points of view, I realized that my tool, this daughters are waitresses

to make money while they attend college on the East Coast. They're back here with us now. But

when their schools were open and they were living back there, that's how they made a living. And

all of, or most of the waitresses, I believe, are now out of work, which is somewhat tragic.

So we're going to talk to my friend Alon Hall today. I had hoped to talk to Alon

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