Welcome to Our Henhouse.

This is Jasmine Singer, and this is Marianne Sullivan.

And on this week's show, Marianne will be joined by filmmaker Gloria Pancrasi and Michael Brunner,

the president of Dr. Brunners, to talk about the new film Co-extinction, which is a beautiful and yet deeply disturbing documentary about the orcas of the Pacific Northwest and the intertangled issues that are putting them in so much danger.

Wow, I bet it was difficult for you to prepare for

this interview, but I'm ultimately very, very grateful that this is out there and super excited to hear

what they have to say. This is a great interview, and it's a great movie, and I think it's her

first feature film, which is really impressive because it's

really good. It's very engrossing. I mean, I hadn't realized, you know, all this stuff about

the orcas and how there are these subspecies and and they're in terrible. I mean, you know,

I know everybody's in danger, but I really learned a lot about the orcas. But the thing that

really struck me was it's related to the title of the movie Co-extinction. It's how species don't really go extinct in isolation. It's the interplay among all the species. And one of the species that's involved very, very intimately in this, in this issue is the salmon. And the

salmon are so threatened. I mean, there's loads and loads of salmon in the Pacific Northwest,

but unfortunately, most of them seem to be ending up in fish farms. So yeah, all right, I won't go on

and on about it because you should watch the movie and you should listen to the interview. Both are

really, really worth it.

Wow. Yeah, I definitely want to see this.

It's top of my list.

But before we get to the interview, I just wanted to chat about a few things.

First of all, let's talk about this week.

It is something that you, of course, brought to my attention, you being the queen of Twitter.

And it was from Paul Darwin Picklesheimer, which I feel like entering Paul's family just so I could

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