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Otherppl with Brad Listi

Vanessa, Age??, Vegan Activist

Otherppl with Brad Listi

Brad Listi

Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.8556 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Character Study, Vol. 10. 'Character Studies' is a new series on the podcast featuring interviews with 'civilians'—ordinary adult humans of all ages and backgrounds, talking with Brad about their lives, anonymously. In Vol. 10, a conversation with Vanessa, a woman of unspecified age, a vegan activist from Los Angeles, California. *** ⁠⁠Otherppl with Brad Listi⁠⁠ is a weekly podcast featuring in-depth interviews with today's leading writers. Available where podcasts are available: ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠, ⁠⁠Spotify⁠⁠, ⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠, etc. Subscribe to ⁠⁠Brad Listi’s email newsletter⁠⁠. ⁠⁠Support the show on Patreon⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Merch⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠  ⁠⁠TikTok⁠⁠ ⁠⁠Bluesky⁠⁠ Email the show: letters [at] otherppl [dot] com The podcast is a ⁠⁠proud affiliate partner of Bookshop⁠⁠, working to support local, independent bookstores. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

All right, welcome to the Other People Show.

0:08.2

My name is Brad Listy, and I am in Los Angeles.

0:11.4

It's good to be with you.

0:12.7

Thank you for tuning in.

0:14.5

Hope everything's going okay out there.

0:17.2

Don't forget to subscribe to this show wherever you get your podcasts and you can follow me on

0:23.6

blue sky and instagram it is sunday so it is time for another character studies episode

0:31.6

if you're new to the show character studies episodes feature me in conversation with a civilian, an ordinary human being

0:41.2

from somewhere who does something and we just talk. This podcast has its origins as a literary

0:49.9

interview show and that is still part of what I do. But character studies allow me to get a lot of

0:56.6

different perspectives and to hear a lot of different voices. And the series started earlier this

1:03.0

year, and today we're going to do another one. And my guest is a woman named Vanessa. She is of

1:10.2

unspecified age, and she is a vegan activist from

1:14.4

Los Angeles. We had a great talk, super fascinating. And you're going to hear that in just a moment.

1:21.6

A quick reminder that I have an email newsletter and you can sign up for it over at

1:26.9

Substack,

1:29.5

Bradlisty.substack.com.

1:31.7

It's a great way to keep up with the show.

1:35.1

I will let you know about the latest episodes each week. And I also share a list of things that I have been reading and finding interesting.

1:40.9

So if that sounds good, go sign up for my newsletter.

1:45.9

Today's episode is brought to you by Mulholland Books, publisher of a new novel by J. Robert Lennon called Buzzkill. Buzzkill is the

1:54.1

official May Pick of the Other People Book Club. That is my book club. If you want to sign up for my

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