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Hi this is Hope.

This is Corrine.

Hi this is Katie from Washington DC and you're left to Nidathlete Radio and today I am so

excited to be joined by Michelle Kane and Tony Okamoto who are brand new authors or have just put out a new book or it's

coming out. When is the release date for your new book?

It's coming out on October 27th, so it is out next month, the friendly vegan cookbook. We are so excited.

Yeah, well congratulations on that. We're definitely going to dive into some of that and things

you cover there, but before doing that, I guess, why don't I give you guys

a chance to introduce yourselves,

talk a little bit about your background

and why you decide to work together on this book.

I'll start.

I'm Tony and I run the website Plant Based on a Budget and I have been plant-based for 13 years now. It started originally for health

reasons but has grown into a variety of reasons that have kept me vegan for so long including environmentalism and and animal issues and

Michelle and I have been friends for, I would say we've been besties for about five years now and I had tried to get her to write this book with me for a while and it kind of went in the same way that I tried to get her to be my friend for a while which was a funny thing I'd met her and I liked her and I just, her energy draws people in and so I was like, oh man, I really want to be friends with that Michelle girl.

And so I reached out to her, I was like, hey Michelle, do you want to be my friend?

But really I said, hey Michelle, do you want to be my friend?

But really I said, hey, if you ever want to get some dinner

or anything like that, let me know.

But she had just started working on World of Vegan.

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