I remember in school then the back of the biology class I used to sit beside this

fellow called Keith Barry and Keith Barry was mad into the drums and he just

one day started talking about this thing called a detox and it was like what the hell is a detox and we kind of kicked it around a bit and no one knew what it was.

It wasn't in the social dialect. It wasn't a word that was used.

So I remember going down to the local library because the internet wasn't around and I asked you have a book on detox. They said no, but there's one in Dublin. It would be here next week. So it was like great. So we got the book the next week and we read it and it was like okay cool so it says okay so we're going to eat brown bread instead of white bread. We're going to eat porrods instead of cornflakes and cereals. We're going to give up junk food and the big thing was no booze.

So we said we do this for a couple of weeks before the marathon or detox.

So we did it and we found out it was pretty nice and we felt kind of pretty grounded. We were interested in like lentils and beans and what the hell is a chickpeas. This is before supermarkets used to stock these strange kind of ethnic foods to the way we were brought up so it was

fascinating in lots of ways and this kind of was the start of us understanding

that food was more than simply sustenance. here I interview ordinary people who have taken extraordinary leaps of faith often in the direction of their path and their purpose and in doing so they've been able to positively impact the lives of others who have heard their story or who've witnessed them in action.

My guests today are my very first identical twin guests. They hail from Ireland, and as you'll hear, they've taken the plant-based

world by storm over the past several years.

Their names are Steve and Dave, otherwise known as the Happy Pear. That's P-E-A-R like the fruit.

Steve and Dave are in their 40s now, but when they were traveling the world in their early 20s as twin power goes while on opposite

sides of the world they both happened to switch to a plant-based diet within a week of one another

without realizing that the other one had gone

plant-based and from there the happy pear seed was sown. Currently they promote a

healthier happier world.

And get this, every single morning for years,

they have cultivated community around rising early

and heading to their local beach

to catch the sunrise and take a dip in the ocean and yes even in the winter months which can be quite cold in Ireland.

The happy pair runs cafes, they have several plant-based products and grocery stores throughout Europe and they produced a handful of best-selling

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