The Simple Heart w/ Wayne Hsiung
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne Hsiung
Who says you can't change the world? Meet the people who are. Wayne Hsiung, law professor-turned-grassroots animal rights activist and multi-state felony defendant, uncovers the people behind the political, the unexplored personal stories of social change. Intimate interviews with journalists, music...
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That "Crazy" Animal Rights Lawsuit is About to Change the World (with PETA's Jeff Kerr) (Ep.84)
Jeff Kerr at PETA has brought some of the wildest legal cases in animal rights history: monkey selfies, orca slavery, and more. I chatted with him abo...
The Case for Optimizing Everything with Joey Savoie (Ep.83)
Joey Savoie, the co-founder of Ambitious Impact, lives his life by spreadsheets, and it’s allowed him to create tremendous impact. Should we follow in...
Visiting a Climate Leader in Prison (Ep. 82)
The UK climate movement achieved a historic win. Roger Hallam doesn’t give a f—.
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This Might Get Me Canceled with George Martin / Carnism Debunked (Ep.81)
George Martin has some of the most controversial takes in animal rights, from George Floyd to Gaza. Should that get him canceled?
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The Greatest Turnaround in Animal Rights History (Ep.80)
The state tried to jail me for rescuing dogs. Now it’s helping us save them. But there’s so much more than 3000 dogs at stake.-The Simple Heart on Sub...
Free Palestine Failed. Here’s How They Could Have Won. (Ep.79)
You can’t create change by threatening to kill people.
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Trump Fired The One Woman Who Can Stop Elon (Ep.78)
Elon has one weakness: animal cruelty. And the one woman who could expose it has just been fired.
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Why Animal Liberation Will Happen In One Generation (Ep.77)
People say animal rights won’t be achieved for centuries or even millennia. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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What Vegans Can Learn From DeepSeek (Ep. 76)
A breakthrough Chinese AI shook the global economy. Vegans can do the same – if we learn from what made Deepseek great.
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Am I Ruining Veganism? (Ep.75)
Getting arrested for the animals isn’t a problem for the movement. It’s an opportunity.
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How Vegans Are Winning in Trump Country (Ep. 74)
There’s nothing like the threat of imprisonment to force you to learn.
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Is MAGA Coming For the Vegans? (Ep.73)
What Trump 2.0 could mean for animal rights. Surprisingly, it’s not all bad.
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How We Turned The Tables on Ridglan Farms (Ep.72)
Three factors that allowed us to prevail in the face of overwhelming odds.
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I Didn’t “Steal” Dogs. I Rescued Them. (with Jade Ara) (Ep.71)
People keep accusing me of stealing animals. I speak to Jade Ara of the Stop Yulin Podcast on why they’re wrong.
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The Single Most Important Lesson for 2025 (Ep. 70)
It’s very simple: have faith.
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Why Angry Men Are Killing From NYC To New Orleans (w/ the Supreme One aka Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.69)
The real reason men are killing people across the nation.
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I “Stole” Turkeys From Him. Then He Saved Me. (Ep. 68)
On the virtues of making friends with your enemies.
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Debating Sexual Misconduct, “Extremism,” and Purity Politics in Animal Rights (with Vegan Gains) (Ep. 67)
I confront Vegan Gains on his “problematic” views. It goes ok. Sort of.
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Was Jesus An Animal Rights Activist? (with Kam Waters) (Ep.66)
Opposition to animal sacrifice was central to Jesus’s teachings. That’s the argument documentary maker Kam Waters makes in his provocative documentary...
The Cover-up of Mass Reindeer Slaughter on Christmas (with Rich Hardy) (Ep. 65)
The bizarre story of the mass reindeer slaughter at Christmas – and what we can do to stop it.
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The Real Story Behind Whole Foods’ Efforts to Jail Me (Ep.64)
Today, we are in court arguing against Whole Foods’ effort to bankrupt me after I exposed their lies about “humane” farms. Here’s the behind the scene...
What To Do If You Hate CEOs (with Nathan Robinson) (Ep.63)
Nathan and I discuss the deep-seated human desire for retribution – and how to harness it for change.
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What To Do If You Find Out Fauci is Torturing Beagles (with Justin Goodman) (Ep.62)
Justin Goodman, a Senior Vice President at White Coat Waste, was tarred as a racist & mocked as a conspiracy theorist for questioning Anthony Fauci’s...
How “Relational Dysfunction” Is Ruining Everything (with Melanie Joy) (Ep.61)
Melanie Joy is a Harvard-educated psychologist who focuses on how individual mental patterns can cause (or block) social transformation. And she has f...
Horror, Slavery, and the Path to Animal Rights (with Andrew Rakich) (Ep.60)
What do horror movies, antebellum slavery, and cannibalism have in common? They all connect to the economic conditions required for political transfor...
This Pig Farmer Defends Cannibalism. I’m Trying To Make Him My Friend. (with Trent Loos) (Ep.59)
Trent Loos and I met on the day that I organized a rescue that sent me to jail. And Trent was part of the charge pushing the government to put me in p...
James Aspey Confronts Me on Steroids, the Liberation Pledge, & Veganster Rap (Ep.58)
James Aspey and I talk about how he gained nearly 50 pounds of muscle while eating mostly Pad Thai, and the merits of taking the Liberation Pledge at...
Turkeys, AI, and the Future of Thanksgiving with Peter Singer (Ep.57)
I speak to renowned philosopher Peter Singer about his new book, Consider the Turkey, and about his new artificial intelligence platform, Peter Singer...
“Coming Out” for Animals on Thanksgiving (with Mark Westcombe) (Ep.56)
There’s a tendency for many to avoid conversation, much less confrontation, around the turkeys being served at our Thanksgiving dinner. Mark Westcombe...
The ABSURD Hypocrisy on Animal Rights (with David Ramms) (Ep.55)
Elon Musk defended Peanut the squirrel - but also funds grotesque experiments on monkeys in labs. And Elon is like many people in his bizarre, inconsi...
Finding Peace Amidst Atrocities (with Jamie Logan) (Ep.54)
What happens when a joyous vegan enters the disturbing halls of an industrial factory farm?
Jamie Logan is what I’d call a joyous vegan. Her ac...
The Real Reason Trump Won: Animal Rights? (with Jeremy Beckham) (Ep. 53)
Pnut, a rescued squirrel seized and killed by the New York State Police, played a shocking last minute role in the election of Donald Trump. What does...
What This Election Means for Animals (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 52)
Numerous pro-animal initiatives lost at the ballot box – in some cases, by huge margins. I break down what happened with Natalie Fulton at Pro-Animal...
Debating Vegan Gains on the Importance of Presidential Elections (with Richard Burgess) (Ep. 51)
“Presidential elections don’t matter.” This is the controversial proposition I take up with Vegan Gains, days before the vote. And we reach some surpr...
Traitor Sheep and the Corruption of American Politics (Ep. 50)
A recent undercover investigation exposed the use of Judas Sheep – adult sheep trained to betray lambs and lead them to slaughter. But the concept of...
How Democracy Has Been Taken Over By “High Conflict Personalities” (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 49)
The Democratic Party in Denver has accused animal rights of racism for advocating against the slaughter of animals. Workers of color, they say, will b...
Beagle Experiments Exposed In Court (Ep. 48)
Five takeaways from the dramatic evidentiary hearing that happened this week in our attempt to appoint a special prosecutor to charge Ridglan Farms wi...
How To Stop Trump From Killing Dogs (Ep. 47)
Trump and Harris both support the mass killing of dogs. But there’s an effective science-based strategy for getting them – and all the other political...
He Wants To Argue About Gaza. Here’s Why We Shouldn’t. (with Richard Burgess, aka Vegan Gains) (Ep. 46)
Has Vegan Gains gone intersectional?
Richard and I discuss the merits of bringing multiple causes – from #MeToo to #FreePalestine – under the ba...
Why Is The Democratic Party Defending Animal Torture? (with Aidan Kankyoku) (Ep. 45)
A ban on animal slaughter is on the ballot in Denver. And the fiercest opposition is coming from… the Democratic Party.
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