Welcome to Our Hen House. This is Marianne Sullivan, and this is Jasmine Singer.

And this week, Jasmine will be speaking with Aaron Rimler-Cohen, who will be catching us up on some really important policy work going on at Farm Sanctuary

that is focused on encouraging major shifts in our food system with a long-term goal, of course,

of ending animal agriculture. Farm Sanctuary is doing some interesting stuff these days.

Yeah, this is a very cool interview. He's super smart and I just really enjoyed our conversation so I am looking

forward to that and it's good to get my mind off of the rigmarole you know sometimes life is just

busy and squished with too many things and then it comes down and I think I'm in the former right now

yeah you're really annoying right now like you just constantly have something else you have to do. And here we are. We're actually doing this segment together. We usually do it over the internet. But my internet is down. I had to run over here to sit next to you. And whenever we do it together, we start giggling. So be prepared for that. Maybe now that I've

said it, we won't. So, yeah, all, like all you do is talk about, no, I can't do that. No, I can't do that.

No, I have to do that. No, I have to do this. Like, that's not true. I say I, you're right.

But next week, I am guest hosting four episodes of Connections, which is a talk show in Rochester that is on WXXI,

which is the NPR station here. And Connections is a really thoughtful show. Evan Dawson hosted. He's

completely brilliant. He's going to be out and so I'm covering for

him and I'm having a blast putting these shows together, but it is definitely very all-consuming.

And I don't understand how he does 10 episodes a week normally. No, he makes me feel a complete

loser. I think that's his goal actually. It's like my goal when I get on my Peloton. I'm trying to make other people feel good about themselves when they look at the leaderboard and I'm yet another enough. I was just saying I am basically doing the world of favor by working out. So anyway, I'm in a good place. I've learned master control.

I'm in a good place with it. Every time I go to start my show on the weekend, which weekend

edition, I sit in the studio. It's like first thing in the morning. And I sit there and I go,

red pletther, yellow pletter, red red plether yellow plether red plether

yellow plether because you know when I was in college for theater a hundred years ago it was red leather

yellow leather we all I think we all know that like not that you were in college but we all remember

red leather yellow leather when did you do red leather yellow leather? I don't know,

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