Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer. And this is Marianne Sullivan. And we are super excited about this week's interview. Oh my God, you're going to love this week's interview so much. Jibari Bristport is a brand new member of the New York State Senate, and he has already

staked a claim to being one of the most thoughtful, knowledgeable, and progressive politicians

in the country, not just in New York State. And not only when it comes to animals, though

definitely when it comes to animals, but you are just going to love this interview so much. This is a whole new world. And it's giving us so much hope. Yeah. He totally gave me hope. I mean,

I just, I can't even believe he's a politician because he's so badass. Anyway, on the flock bonus

segment, I will be continuing my conversation with Senator Brissport. So as always, if you're a

flock member, you'll get a link to the bonus segment in your email on Tuesday. And you can also find it on the flock Facebook group. And if you're not a member of the flock, consider joining if you're able to at our henhouse.org slash donate. It's $10 a month or $100 a year. And we're still doing our flock Fridays.

If you are a member of the flock or you become a member of the flock, I hope you can join us.

They are Zoom calls at 4 p.m. Eastern every Friday. And sometimes we have guests.

And sometimes we just talk about stuff.

Last time we talked about, we had kind of a show and tell about activism.

It was really, really good.

A lot of art, a lot of people, either other people's art or their own art.

We always end up talking about how to shift our activism as well as how to take care of ourselves in these times and actually in any time.

So if you're a member of the flock, check out the flock Facebook group for updates or write to us at info at our henhouse.org. So before we get to the interview, there were a few

things we wanted to chat about. Let's just take a moment to sort of acknowledge the fact that

the wonderful Cloris Leachman left us this week, which was so sad.

Yeah, I mean, some of you probably, if you're younger, you may not even know her, but I love Cloris Leachman.

She was well known for being on the Mary Town and Moore Show years and years ago, but also a lot of Melbrook's movies.

And she was a passionate, passionate animal activist and vegan and one of the funniest women on the planet.

Well, one of the funniest people on the planet.

Also, we lost Cicely Tyson this week, and I actually did not know.

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