The Hen Report: “The Status Update Of Your Life” | Monkeys on the Loose, Stolen Surfboards, and Birthday Banter

Our Hen House: Vegan & Animal Rights Movement | Stories from the Frontlines of Animal Liberation

Jasmin Singer and Mariann Sullivan

Documentary, Education, News, News Commentary, Society & Culture, Self-improvement

4.9 • 579 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In this episode of The Hen Report, Jasmin (celebrating her birthday) and Mariann deliver a delightfully chaotic news roundup featuring animals who seem to be staging their own revolution. From escaped lab monkeys to surfboard-stealing sea otters in Santa Cruz, the duo explores these wild and emotional stories alongside significant animal rights victories. Between Broadway tangents and birthday celebrations, they share…

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0:00.0	Welcome to The Hen Report from Our Hen House. This is Jasmine Singer. This is Mary Ann Sullivan.
0:13.0	And here we are on... Oh, happy birthday, Jasmine. Happy birthday. Oh, thanks. It is my birthday today, although we're
0:24.0	recording this the day before my birthday. Happy birthday tomorrow, which is today. How's that?
0:28.3	Yes. Do I get right? It's good. You know, when we used to have my grandma on, like, you know,
0:33.9	when we first started, I remember we had her on, on my birthday a couple times and she said
0:39.2	happy birthday. It's very sweet. I kind of feel like I should go relisten to those and just hear
0:43.8	her voice. I forgot she was on your birthday. Yeah. It has been like a week. Like, first of all, I'm a little
0:51.8	under the weather, which I'm which I'm hearing a little bit.
0:55.3	Yeah, I can hear on your voice.
0:57.7	I also have been nonstop rehearsing for the play.
1:02.4	Well, you're very lucky because that means you can watch less news because that would be, it's immeasurably more wearing on the nerves than erasing i can assure you um yeah we're all
1:14.5	the world is exhausted exhausted was it was this the week that he tore down half the white house
1:21.7	i can't remember uh i care when anything happened things that happened two days ago seemed like
1:27.3	they happened 10 weeks ago because so much
1:29.1	happens every day.
1:31.0	Right.
1:31.4	No, I know.
1:32.7	I know.
1:34.8	They tore down.
1:37.0	I know.
1:37.6	You can't be more on the nose.
1:39.7	Like, it's hard to get your head around it, you know?
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