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.

Our guest today is Mike Matthews. He founded Legion Athletics which is an awesome line of protein

powders and supplements. He also has a blog. You can find Mike on Instagram at Muscle for

Life Fitness. I had some of his chocolate peanut butter protein powder this morning. Enjoy.

Mike Matthews. Ethan. Welcome to the American Glutton podcast. We did it. We fucking did it, man.

It just took a global pandemic, but we did it. Yeah, I mean, we should briefly touch on

that I was on your podcast, eons ago, and you were going to come on mine, but then you weren't

allowed to come to the state, I think, right? Yeah, I was supposed to visit LA. I guess it was a

few weeks ago now. It was in the end of last month and then it obviously became clear that that

wasn't going to happen. And so now I'm, you know, quarantining. Time is both moving ridiculously

slowly and really fast at the same time. Oh yeah, how so for you? I go to bed at night going,

that was a whole day. Like I'm very confused by it. But in the middle of the day, I'll feel,

I feel like at one, at the same time, we've been doing this quarantine thing forever. And it started

yesterday. Yeah, no, I understand the feeling. I am making a joke in one of my upcoming emails that

it feels a bit like I'm liking it to in Lord of the Rings when Frodo got stabbed by the more

gold blade. And he's he's alive, but he's also now under this dark enchantment that's like sucking

him into the spectral realm. So we're in this kind of surreal purgatory limbo for many of us who are

fortunate enough to experience this as maybe an obnoxious inconvenience because this is a lot worse

for many other people. But for those of us who don't have it nearly as bad, yeah, it's a

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