Welcome to Our Henhouse. This is Marianne Sullivan. This is Jasmine Singer.

And this week, Jasmine will be chatting in a very interesting conversation with tennis champion

and founder of high-impact athletes, Marcus Danielle, about connecting

athletes to opportunities for charitable giving. That really makes a difference, including,

of course, for animals. And this was a pretty interesting conversation for you, wasn't it?

Yeah, very intriguing. I love this guy. Like Marcus, you can move in. We have an extra room in the

attic. It's not going to be weird at all. No, seriously, like, I want to be best friends with,

well, second best friends with him. My best friend, Erica, will get very mad if I don't say that.

So second best friends with Marcus. But I do want to talk about something. So as our listeners know,

but it bears repeating, we generally interview vegans. Like that is 99.9% of who we interview.

The exception to that is if, for example, we have a wildlife issue that we feel is very

important and we cannot find a vegan who is covering a specific wildlife issue or, you know, a companion

animal issue, maybe. They are, they are exceptions. They are few and far between now.

When we asked Marcus on to the podcast, we thought that he ate like oysters

or something like that. And, you know, I obviously that's not vegan or vegetarian. And we had a

discussion and we were like, well, we'll talk to him about it. And my understanding at the time was that, like, you know, there is an argument that oysters

aren't sentient. So I was like, okay, fine. It's an opportunity to have that conversation.

Yeah, exactly. So I'm like in the weeds in this interview with him And he mentioned eating eggs. And I was like,

you know, first of all, I don't think we would have invited him on to be totally honest,

just because it goes against what we're doing. However, he is doing so much work for animals

and we're in the middle of this interview. I'm honestly so

glad we had him on because he's he's so smart and fascinating. And it gave us an opportunity to talk

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