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Bonus Episode *Unlocked*: Catman and Robin

Hyperfixed

Alex Goldman & Radiotopia

History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Technology

4.7965 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Even thoug this is an off week, we decided to unlock a bonus episode for our main feed listeners, because we thought this was useful context.

On this episode: Noted cat-lover Alex Goldman interviews the founder of FIP Warriors, Robin Kintz, and things get a little tense.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey Radiotopia friends. I wanted to make sure that you knew that home cooking is back with a new season.

0:08.0

If you haven't heard home cooking yet, the show launched back in March 2020 right at the start of lockdown,

0:13.9

at a time when we all need advice on cooking smarter at home.

0:17.4

Host Samin Nasrat, chef and author of the best-selling cookbook, salt, fat, acid, heat, and the host of the

0:23.9

Netflix series of the same name, and Rishakash Hirway, host creator of the Song Exploder

0:28.9

podcast and Netflix series, continued to give the best food advice. What's the proper way to store

0:34.7

herbs? How can you recreate your long-lost family recipes?

0:38.5

And what are the best food gifts for the holidays?

0:41.2

Samin and Rishi are here to help with lots of laughs along the way.

0:45.2

Homecooking is back on August 29th with new episodes every other week.

0:49.8

Make sure subscribe to get new episodes and visit homecooking. Show for more info.

1:00.8

Hey everyone, this is Alex, and I know this is an off week, but we wanted to unlock a bonus

1:06.4

episode as a kind of goodbye to the Cat Drug Black market series. Our schedule is continuing uninterrupted.

1:13.6

There's going to be a new main feed episode next week.

1:15.6

This is just an extra piece that we felt was worth sharing with the main feed.

1:20.6

And this is an interview with arguably the most important player in the FIP Warrior story, Robin Kintz.

1:32.9

She created the FIP Warriors' Facebook page back in 2019 after trying to get black market meds for her two sick cats, Henry and Fiona.

1:37.2

I do want to say that many of the people we talk to for this story praise Robin for

1:41.7

saving their cats' lives, but also many people, including some of those who praise her,

1:48.0

have a lot of negative things to say about her

1:50.1

and about how she continues to run the FIP Warriors group.

1:54.7

Also, just as an FYI, we did this interview pretty early in our reporting

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