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 on American Glutton I talk to Kumail Nanjiani. He's an actor and comedian and has undergone

a radical body transformation. He has all the abs. Please enjoy our talk.

Kumail. I'm sitting outside with such a gorgeous day. It really is a beautiful day. And we've had

so few beautiful days recently. I know in a way it's been honestly kind of a blessing because I

don't trust people to take this seriously. So in a way, all the rain, I'm like, good, they hope.

I've been thinking like if they could have cooked up the perfect weather to keep people inside in California,

they did it. It was like it never rains and then suddenly since this has just been raining constantly. It's perfect.

But then the flip side is on days like today when the hills are green for the first time in six months,

there's an extra bit of a calling to go outside. Just the smallest God and you can look so much farther.

It's like absolutely beautiful right now. We go on walk. We're very careful. We turn on mass and stuff.

We go on walks and it's just the air quality so much nicer because my wife and my family has like this.

You know, she's in a high risk group and one of the reasons is she's got some lung issues. She's very

aware of air quality all the time. She could tell the difference. She's a canary in the cold mind and it's been like

you know, that part of it isn't great for her. Yeah, I mean when when we look outside, it seems clear.

And then there's all that data I saw out of China, which kind of in the midst of the shutdown,

that certainly the areas over Wuhan, the the carbon coming out of there had diminished by a massive rate.

No, man, we've made a hell on earth for ourselves. Yeah, yeah.

In more ways than one, too, I'm afraid. All right, I wanted to ask you, I definitely want to talk

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