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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 as entertainment, food as sport, food as fuel.

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

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Josh Miller, welcome to the American Glutton Podcast.

Thank you for having me. I'm honored.

I'm interested in all perspectives about health and weight loss and not even necessarily weight loss, but just like body perception.

Like this is a very interesting thing to me. I've had a couple of trans dials on and like it's very interesting to me to talk to them about, you know, like having this perception of yourself and then making the changes that you think will create this sense of happiness.

And then how do you feel because I still having made some kind of a transformation deal with all the garbage that I dealt with before.

Maybe it's quieter.

Right. Well, I mean, well, first of all, kudos to you for bringing trans people on your show, inclusivity, visibility, acceptance.

Thank you. Very, very important because it's really talk about bodies that are in danger, you know, physical danger for being whether you're in transition or have transition or you're just gender queer and you it's not about changing the outside to match your inside.

It's about fluidity between the two, which I think is really fascinating. Thankfully people like you and other people are talking about these things in relationship to health because I think obviously in the trans community, there is so much mental health issues, drug addiction issues and

fear and fear life really so many people are trans are are on the streets, you know, or have been on the streets and and sexual health and mental health and drug health obviously is paramount and obviously, you know, there's, there's so there's so many, there's so few resources to help those people.

I grew up in LA in the 80s and 90s and if you remember, I'm sure you do, but I would drive with my mom down Santa Monica Boulevard and I would see the hustlers on the street.

I mean, there was no websites to find anybody you wanted to meet or score whatever you wanted to score, whether it be a physical experience or something else, but and then there was course all the various trans sexual trans, gender queer people that were selling themselves or looking for drugs and I.

I mean, it was everywhere to me, dude, I think it became a trader Joe's I don't know if it's still a trader Joe's but that parking lot on Santa Monica one night, I was a teenager driving home and it just looked like what's happening in this parking lot this is this is what you this is like what the 70s told us

time square look like or wherever the street walkers I don't know how to properly what what moniker to properly tack on people sex workers as the sex workers yes, yes, politically compassionate way to describe it.

So we see this just like meat market kind of a venue of gals standing in this parking lot and me and me and my buddy were are just dropped because this was not some regular site, but it was all trans gals.

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