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Homo Sapiens

137: Dan Mathews | Part 2

Homo Sapiens

Christopher Sweeney

Society & Culture, Sexuality, Arts, Relationships, Health & Fitness

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2021

⏱️ 22 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

Here is the second half of our interview with Dan.

0:05.8

If you haven't heard part one, make sure you go back to the feed and click on that first.

0:09.9

Here is our second half.

0:13.1

Dan, I wanted to shift the subject and talk to you about one of my favourite parts of

0:21.3

your life story.

0:22.3

So when you were in Rome, when you went to your studying in Rome, was that right when

0:26.6

your university student, and do you accidentally fell upon a career that you didn't expect

0:34.0

to tell us about that?

0:35.0

If I'm a ride and make a little lunch money, I was a teenage prostitute in Rome, yes.

0:41.3

I knew that.

0:42.3

Come and fight.

0:43.3

It was a total accident.

0:44.5

It was.

0:45.5

Well, I was saying it's frustrating now because we can't leave the country.

0:50.0

We don't like Trump.

0:51.0

It doesn't matter.

0:52.0

We can't leave if we wanted to.

0:53.4

But when Reagan was elected, I was just getting out of high school and he had already been

0:58.0

governor of California and had done so much damage and I thought, I'm not hanging around

1:01.6

here.

1:02.6

So I saved up a thousand bucks, waiting tables and moved to Rome when I was 17.

1:07.2

I had no credit cards, no friends, didn't speak Italian and just decided that's going

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