137: Dan Mathews | Part 1
Homo Sapiens
Christopher Sweeney
4.7 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2021
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
What do Pamela Anderson, Paul McCartney and The Golden Girls have in common? Well - it's this week's guest. PETA icon Dan Mathews is the king of controversy and author of two wild memoirs, "Like Crazy" and "Committed." He has changed the face of fashion and activism over the past 36 years with campaigns like "I'd Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur." He joins us with stories of storming runways, enlisting superstars and how he and his husband entice hunters to their vegan dinner parties. Hear how an early gay bashing started his journey into a life of animal activism, and how he fights for other causes from gay rights to Black Lives Matter. Click play! (Credit to the amazing Atria Books and Simon & Schuster)
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| 0:00.0 | Little addition to this interview, since it was recorded, me and Alan were |
| 0:05.1 | chuckling the other day because it shows that it's taken us a little while to get |
| 0:08.0 | out. Dan Matthews, animal rights icon, as he was called in the article that |
| 0:12.4 | announced it, has actually left his job at Peter. He has actually ended such an |
| 0:18.4 | iconic tenure there. One of the articles that announced it saying he is leaving |
| 0:22.2 | the organization, he helped put on the map and make the largest animal rights |
| 0:26.1 | group on the planet. So this is, in fact, his last, probably his last interview as |
| 0:31.9 | a member of Peter. It's actually an extra special chat now. Can't wait for you to |
| 0:36.5 | hear it. Have a listen. |
| 0:40.0 | Hello, hello Christopher. Hello, Alan. Can I welcome, can I ask you into the |
| 0:46.8 | Velveteen Halls of Homo sapiens? That sounds dirty. It does, doesn't it? |
| 0:55.1 | Do you remember she and Eastern did a duet with Prince? I mean, talk about |
| 0:58.9 | right. And her song was called Come Inside My Sugar Walls. Seriously, it was |
| 1:03.5 | good. It's not exactly that veiled, that sexual analogy, is it? No, do you know what? |
| 1:11.4 | Listen, it's what I also want to share with you is that every time before we |
| 1:14.6 | record these little intros, and Alan picks up his phone, and a little show |
| 1:19.3 | tune starts to play. It's so embarrassing, because well, it's often, it's worse |
| 1:26.2 | when it's like a YouTube clip of the guest, what about to do? Oh, yeah, I have it. |
| 1:31.5 | I don't know, because where I put the, my phone on top of my computer right now for |
| 1:35.6 | these little pre-chats, sometimes pests a button, and it makes the video |
| 1:39.3 | start, I've just been watching, and I'm just paranoid that sometimes we're going |
| 1:42.1 | to be in the middle of an interview with someone, and they'll hear their own voice |
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