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 my guest is John Gludd. John's story went viral when he shared his weight loss journey

on YouTube. John lost 170 pounds and gained a whole new outlook on life. He's been featured

on shows like Ellen and Profiled on Bodybuilding.com. I'm excited to talk to him today. You can

find him on Instagram and YouTube at O'Beast to Beast.

John. Hello. Welcome to American Glutton.

Thanks for having me on. I'm really excited to be here. Thank you for being here. I feel like I was

like very peripherally aware of your story because I think I might have caught you on Ellen or something

like that. That's very possible. Yeah. And then your boys was Spencer. Yeah. Who we had on

and Spencer was like, you got to talk to this guy. And then I like went deep on what you're doing.

It was so impressed by you. Yeah. Look, I'm trying to be as like lay everything out on the

table as possible. But I'm still like super uncomfortable about all of this. Yeah. And you literally

were just like, whatever makes me uncomfortable, that's what I'm doing. Yeah. That is really,

really impressive, dude. Yeah. For me, I would say like, you know, the thing that a lot of people

know me by is from when I went on Ellen and I made a video about my loose skin. So like a very

taboo subject, even still. And I've made like, I don't even know how many videos on it. But like,

I've talked about it quite a bit. It's something that people still struggle with speaking about,

which is understandable because it feels like it's like this like, oh my gosh, I'm so weird

because I have loose skin from losing a lot of weight. And like the reality is everyone that has

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