Welcome to Food for Thought Podcast, giving you the tools and resources you need to live

according to your values of compassion and wellness, joyfully, healthfully, deliciously

and sustainably. Before we begin, my name is Colleen Patrick-Gadrow. You can find me at

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to patreon.com slash Colleen Patrick-Gadrow. Thank you in advance. And as I work on new episodes,

I thought you would enjoy this episode from the archives. Enjoy. Now onto our topic. Why in the world?

Would I even question the veganness of plants? Well, it all started in October 2018 on the BBC

panel show QI. Now QI is a British comedy panel show. David and I have been watching for years.

It features comedians answering questions that are very obscure. So it makes it very unlikely

that the comedians will get the correct answer. And of course, zanianness ensues when they

pretend they know the answer and don't, et cetera, et cetera. So QI stands for quite interesting.

And the panel consists of four participants. There's three rotating guests. And there's one regular

guest, Alan Davies, whom I adore. I actually revolved our dates for our first trip to Scotland.

This is many years ago. I revolved our dates around when we would go around a special standup show

that Alan Davies was performing in Glasgow a number of years ago. So we went to see him, met him

after the show. I got my little photo taken. And in fact, on that same trip, it turned out that

David Mitchell, another regular guest on QI and a comedian and social commentator, was going to be

in London the same time we were. So in that same trip, we also got tickets to see David Mitchell

in a discussion. I was just a Q&A with his new book coming out. His new book was called Backstory,

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