Welcome to The Our Henhouse interview.

I'm Jasmine Singer.

I'm Mary Ann Sullivan.

And today, oh, I'm so excited.

We're going to be talking about a truly extraordinary vegan restaurant,

about some truly extraordinary women, and about a new extraordinary movie about

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Okay. So, Marian, I am excited by today, but I'm also excited that cat butt keeps going past your screen.

I'm living for it. If anybody wonders why I have no words. I have to use the script to do anything,

and my cat keeps walking in front of my script, mostly in a way that you can't even see him,

so you don't even know I was sitting here saying absolutely nothing. It's, it's adorable.

It's Eugene, and I'll tell you, if he knew that there were humans looking at him, he would die.

Don't sell in that. Don't looking at him, he would be, don't sell in them.

So, okay, Marianne and I, for our, for our listeners, you might, you probably know how obsessed we are with blood root.

And I feel like we actually mentioned it. Vicki, is it true? We mentioned it on the podcast like a week or two before we got this pitch, right? Like totally randomly. All right. So let's introduce our guests because we're going to chat a lot about this today. So Annie Laurie Madonis is an award-winning filmmaker with a passion for storytelling.

As a director and producer, she creates narrative and documentary films on socially significant

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