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For as long as I have known Honey LaBronx , I have to say it is a damn shame that this is her first appearance on the podcast. We did a show together, maybe ten years ago, and have been best of friends ever since. Here we talk about her current tour , her solo show, how how she manages to juggle her numerous other projects. I’m excited to be back to the podcast after my mountain of work with...

Over the last year or so of knowing her, Kiirstin Marilyn and I have stood side by side at protests, video sets, and soon we will be sharing a stage together. She is a powerhouse activist, a brilliant artist, and now a good friend. With her partner Karolina Tyszkowska, Kiirstin produces the spectacular V for Veganism YouTube series. She is a street activist who brings her breathtaking vo...

Donny Moss and I have run in the same activist circles in New York City for quite some time, so it was really great to finally chat with him one on one about his activism and how it interweaves with his creative work. Donny is the creator of the film Blinders , and Their Turn , an online animal rights magazine with news, commentary & calls to action. He is a tireless activist, and a real inspi...

It’s hard to believe that after a year as artist in residence at Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary , I am just getting around to having its founders, Gabrielle Stubbert and Peter Nussbaum, on the podcast. During my time and the farm, Peter and Gabrielle became two of my best friends. I love and believe in what they are doing at Tamerlaine Farm Animal Sanctuary so much, it’s really an ho...

I am a gigantic John Sakars fan, and am proud to call him a friend and collaborator. He’s always fun to talk to, and here we chat about his process, his remarkable creative output, and the secret to his seemingly limitless positivity. At the top of the show, I review final week with  Mark Wood  and  Jamie Robinson ‘s  30 Days to Wellness,  and give a quick check in a...

My friend Emmett Jack Lundberg returns to the podcast this week to discuss the new season of his critically acclaimed series, Brothers , which is the first narrative series to showcase stories of transmen. Emmett and I talk about how the success of the show has allowed him to increase production values and the size of his team, casting trans actors, and the different types of challenges that show...

I sometimes feel a bit insecure talking with visual artists. I know so little about that world, so I fear I won’t have the knowledge or even basic vocabulary to carry on a worthwhile conversation. Enter painter  Jane O’Hara , whose charming approachability is matched only by her fascinating path as an artist who makes works about animals. She was an absolute treasure on this week&...

Carrie Hawks is a filmmaker whose film, black enuf*  explores their journey as “a queer oddball seeking approval from black peers despite a serious lack of hip-hop credentials.” This animated documentary playfully explores race and self-acceptance through Carrie’s experience, and interviews with their family and friends. Carrie Hawks and I talked about their process in makin...

I got a message from Bianca at Shark Party Media early last week that she had a perfect guest for the podcast: Lauren Maul . One glance at her latest project, Apologies from Men: The Album  convinced me that this was an activist artist I needed to meet. In Apologies from Men: The Album , Lauren Maul has taken infamous male apology statements and created animated videos of paper dolls set to o...

Jeffrey Marsh is a author, speaker, and non-binary activist who uses the Internet as their medium with tremendous success. Jeffrey was a huge success on (sadly, now defunct) Vine , but their social media success extends well beyond that with over 350 million views of their positive and inclusive message. Jeffrey’s best-selling book,  How To Be You , made them the first non-bin...

Just about 48 hours after I met Macken on Twitter (yes! it’s still a thing) we were Skyping our way through this great interview for the podcast. Macken is the host of the brand new Species podcast,  which teaches you everything you’d ever want to know about a given animal. A committed vegan, Macken combines his love of podcasting with his passion for vegan advocacy to make this i...

I had the privilege of meeting photojournalist Jo-Anne McArthur last fall at The Compassion Arts and Culture & Animals Foundation Festival . Jo-Anne is the creator of We Animals , a project which documents, through photography, animals in the human environment. She has won numerous awards, is widely published, and is the subject of the documentary film, The Ghosts in Our Machine . Hearing Jo-A...

You’ll probably remember vegan rapper  Grey from his award winning  Vegan Thanksgiving freestyle video that went viral in 2016 and continues to get lots of vegan holiday love. His music + activism hybrid made him a perfect candidate to be a guest on the podcast, so I was especially pumped that he accepted my invite to chat. We talk here about his viral success, how his music (and h...

Micah Bucey returns to the podcast this week to discuss the detainment and deportation of Jean Montrevil and Ravi Ragbir. Both men are leaders in the New Sanctuary Coalition and members of Judson Memorial Church here in New York City. Micah briefs us on what has gone down with both of these gentlemen, and gives some solid suggestions about what we can to do get involved. Note: the word I...

Dustin Harder returns to the podcast this week to talk about his adventures filming season three of The Vegan Roadie in Italy and his brand new project, The Simply Vegan Cookbook! I love the way Dustin carved out his own path in advocating for veganism using something he is passionate about: FOOD! He’s a great friend and always a great guest. Follow The Vegan Roadie on  Instagram ,&nbsp...

New year, new focus!  Starting with this week’s episode of the podcast, I’m narrowing the focus of my guests to artists and creators who make work about their activism, and I couldn’t think of a better guest to start with than Jason Oliver . Jason is a singer-songwriter who is also extremely active in open rescue of animals with Direct Action Everywhere . Though his activist...

I met  Jonathan David Smyth  through our mutual friend and collaborator luke kurtis of bd-studios.com . I was really excited to talk with him about his debut monograph,  Just One More: Self-Portraits 2012-2017 . I continue to be intrigued by Jonathan’s photos, and even more so by his video and text work, which you should absolutely check out on his website . Enjoy the podcast,...

I met Chris Hines and his crew last month when they interviewed me for Taking Note – The Vegan Music Documentary.  Chris started the project as a means to find out how veganism has influenced musicians themselves. I was really excited they chose to include me in the film, and I have been really excited to discover more about Chris’ work in veganism and video on his youTube channel...

I stayed for several days this summer with JP Novic at the Center for Animal Protection and Education and really just had a glorious time.  She put me up in a tiny cabin on the property and so kindly brought me coffee and breakfast every morning before we went to work with the animals. I’m so happy to have JP on the podcast this week to talk about the myriad of things that CAPE does to...

I interviewed  The Vegan Mos , Ethan Ciment and Michael Suchman way back in May just as their brilliant NYC Vegan: Iconic Recipes for a Taste of the Big Apple cookbook was released. Well, the tour happened, then more shows happened, and sadly this recording fell into the great podcast abyss. I listened to the interview this weekend, and it holds up so nicely I just had to share it. Ethan and...

I met Donald Vincent AKA  Mr. Hip a few weeks ago at the Compassion Arts and Culture & Animals Festival here in NYC. He approaches and expresses his art with a humbleness and curiosity that I find especially beautiful and inspiring. I was so thrilled to talk to him about his work, his openness to sharing his process, and how his art is part of everything he does.  Mr. Hip i...

This week I talk with Karl Larson and Matt Evans, two of the members of the piano trio, Bearthoven , about their most recent album, Trios . Though their third member Pat Swoboda was unable to join us, we dug deep in their process of creating the album, the commissioning of pieces for the album, and the current new music landscape. We talked a great deal about Bang on a Can , who you should absolut...

I’m back in Brooklyn, and back in the New York groove! This week I talk to two of the most passionate animal activists I know, Dietz ( Unparalleled Suffering ) and Lia ( The Evidence Box ). Both are fantastic photographers who are especially adept at documenting the experience of non-human animals and the horrifying abuses they are subjected to by humans. I got to spend some time staying wit...

I have been looking forward to my stay with Ren Hurst for months, and the experience absolutely did not disappoint. Ren is a former horse trainer turned activist, author of Riding on the Power of Others , and founder of The New World Sanctuary Foundation . Our conversation came at the end of the six days I spent with her and her horses, camping out in gorgeous Northern California without electrici...

Recorded in DxE ‘s house in Berkeley, CA, here’s my interview with powerhouse activist Priya Sawhney. It was incredibly inspiring and energizing to stay in the DxE house for a few days. Lots and lots of work happening at all times, yet it was still a joyful and beautiful place. I love their message about non-violence and in approaching with love. Priya and I had a great conversation ab...