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. Stay tuned after our

interview. This week, instead of answering questions from our website, we decided to do the

asking and we got Ron Howard to wrap about health. The following episode contains adult themes and

may not be suitable for listeners under 18. I want you to really read this as page failed, okay?

Because she did. She allowed me and my very special guest to say some things that might upset

some people and it could make some other people very happy, but not my wife. So there's your advisory.

Today we talk to my friend Michael Maus. Michael is an accomplished author, columnist, and media

personality. He frequently appears as a cultural and political commentator on such television shows

as Red Eye and Kennedy. What I know, he wrote, is Dear Reader, the unauthorized autobiography of Kim

Jong Il and the new right, a journey to the fringe of American politics. Please enjoy this episode. You're welcome.

Michael Maus, welcome to American Glutton. Thank you. Thank you for coming. So I often will force to

perceive life through my own perspective. I think only of people with dietary goals as elite

athletes or morbidly obese people as I was. And so then I got to know you. Yeah. And it turns out

we have much more in common than I thought because you two have, I know you like to call them regimens.

Why are you putting the quotes? Because I don't say the word very well. It has the word men in it.

Yes. Women have diets. We discussed this. Yes. I told her on the first episode that I should call

it a regimen. Yeah. But I still don't feel that I say that word well. You didn't say right. I know.

It's not regimen. It's not French. Well, it's French. Yeah. Exactly. You have a funny pronunciation of the

G there. Yeah. Regimen. Regimen. Regimen. Yeah. English is my second language. What is your excuse?

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