Welcome to our headhouse. This is Jasmine Singer and this is Mary Ann Sullivan.

And on this week's show, we have a very inspiring interview with someone who is truly putting it all on the line for animals.

Matt Johnson is an investigator and

the press coordinator with direct action everywhere, which you might know as DXC. And among other things,

he will be telling us about a rescue of a piglet in Iowa during the early days of COVID when they

were shutting down the ventilation in factory farms.

That has resulted in pending felony charges.

These people from DXA, like they really are taking extraordinary risks with their own health and safety.

And, you know, I'm just like unendingly impressed. I just really love talking to him

and I love talking to him about it. So I hope you really enjoy this interview. These people care

deeply about animals. And on the flock bonus segment this week, I'll be continuing that

conversation with Matt. And as always, if you're a flock member, you'll get the link to the bonus

segment in your email on the Tuesday after this episode goes up, or you can always find it on the flock Facebook group.

And if you're not a member of the flock and you can afford it, you can join for $10 a month at

our henhouse.org slash donate. And I think I should mention in that context, thank you to everyone,

to everyone who has donated.

Thank you so much to everyone. And if you are a flock member, please join us for our first

flock Friday Zoom calls, which are once a month on the first Friday of the month at 4 p.m. Eastern,

8 p.m. Greenwich meantime. We just had one this past week. I will tell you about it next week,

where we chit-chat about activism and dealing with this world. If we can be a little bit more,

I don't know, brighter as we're dealing with this dark, dark world. So if you're a member of

the flock, make sure you check out the flock Facebook group for updates

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