Welcome to Our Hen House.

This is Jasmine Singer.

And this is Marianne Sullivan.

And on this week's show, Marianne will be joined by Dash Mazler,

who runs the Podershka Foundation, which is an extraordinary grassroots vegan,

Ugandan organization that is doing so many amazing things to lift up both people and animals.

Yeah, this is my interview of the year. Well, not to put on any of my other interviews,

which are all fabulous, but this one, oh my God.

Like, it's just amazing.

He's doing so much, and he's totally animal rights, and he's totally passionate, and he's so

intelligent in the way he approaches issues.

Well, I won't give away anymore, but you have to listen to this.

We do have some issues with listening to this because it was very hard to understand.

It is, of course, totally in English.

Each of us have very different accents, but there were a lot of, in addition to different accents,

there were a lot of sound problems in the background.

And when that happens, and we kind of smooth them out and try to get rid of the background sound,

it does make the sound a little blurry.

So all in all, we decided to do this two ways.

In the interview that you will hear right after we gab for a while,

there will be a voiceover by Jocelyn Martinez,

and we went through the whole interview very carefully, and there'll also be a transcript available. And so you can listen to it as read by Jocelyn with Dash's voice in the background,

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