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. Today I'm talking to

an old friend Max Disha. He's an awesome guy, I'm known for a long time. Like so many of us

Max has struggled with his weight for years and his friends do not hold back on pointing that out to him.

I want to hear from Max about the pressure from his friends as well as his diet and exercise ups and

downs. You can find Max at Bunny Eyes on Instagram. Max, thank you for coming in here to talk to us.

Thanks for having me, man. I wanted to ask you, so I was always overweight from five years old on

and within my group of friends, it never really came up much at all. I think they tried to bring it up

once. It was such a sensitive issue for me that I told them to go fuck themselves, hung up on them

and they were like, okay, we're not bringing it up again. Now later when it was drugs, they brought

that up and they were like, listen, motherfucker, we're going to draw a hard line in the sand over this.

We're going to demand you make some change. The difference I see with you is that your friends

give you nothing but shit all the time. And I want to talk to you about that because my wife and her

friends are constantly talking about diets for themselves. Never would one say to another one,

you should go on a diet. You're fat or you're good. It doesn't happen. And their bodies have changed

through the years to the point where they can say, oh, I had a kid and I'm having the heart to

lose 10 pounds or whatever it is, however that works for a chick. But there is something really,

really different that's going on with you and your friends. And I want to just want to get

into that and hear what your story is. Yeah, I mean, I was like a wiry dude my whole life.

I'd never really had a problem with weight. I was always like, it was fine. I think when I moved

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