Welcome to Our Henhouse. This is Marianne Sullivan. And this is Jasmine Singer. Thank you for

joining us this week. You're going to be thrilled that you did. Jasmine's guest is one of our

most favorite people ever, and not just because he makes us laugh, which is a really, really major attribute these days.

But we're so excited and we're kind of impressed with ourselves that that comedian Mike Kaplan is

once again joining Jasmine for a long, heartfelt and kind of hilarious interview.

I really do adore Mike. He was the guest on my two recent fabulous vegan virtual parties, and he was

everyone's favorite part. And then I was on his podcast recently, broccoli and ice cream, vegan ice

cream, obviously. And I was just prepared for your run-of-the-mill interview. And then he kind of

blew up my life in the process like in a good way

in a way I needed so we'll talk about that on the interview and we'll talk about it even more on the

flock bonus segment where I will be continuing my conversation with Mike as always if you're a

flock member you will get a link to the bonus segment in your email on the Tuesday after this

podcast episode goes up,

or you can always find it in the flock Facebook group. 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 if you are a flock member, don't forget to join us for our flock Friday Zoom calls

at 4 p.m. Eastern, that's 9 p.m. Greenwich

meantime. And we focus on how to be better activists, but we also really focus on how to take care

of ourselves in what are still tough times. I mean, I think sometimes that even though things are

easing, things are still really scary and it's even harder to know what to do these

days. So I don't think we can say we're out of the tough times by any means whatsoever.

Times are definitely changing. And that has been sort of elevated in both of our lives recently because after a year of just doing curbside grocery

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