What Happened To The ChickPeeps?
The ChickPeeps Vegan Podcast
Evanna Lynch
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2023
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Everything was going so well... It was Spring of 2021 and life was returning to a semblance of normality. We were leaving our lockdown caves for work, spending more time outdoors than in deep inner turmoil, and a new ChickPeeps episode dropped every Wednesday, sometimes even on time. We were having complex conversations about vegan capitalism, food equity and greenwashing, and things were getting a whole lot more interesting when, suddenly, season 3 came to an abrupt halt. The ChickPeeps promised to return in Autumn 2021 with a brand new season. But when the vegan world needed them most, they vanished...
Hello, sweet 'peeps! It's been a hot minute and we appreciate we left a ChickPeep shaped hole in many of your lives, promptly plucking the podcast from the orbit just as it was reaching its peak. Call it an Irish Goodbye, or a French Escape, call it just plain rude and disorganized, whatever it was, this unprecedented hiatus and echoey silence from Team ChickPeep left many of you citing the constant refrain: 'What Happened To The ChickPeeps?', 'Anyone still read these emails?' And, most piteously, 'Are you guys ever coming back? :,( ?
We're still here, and we hear you, so we've come together for a special episode to answer all these questions and more. In this episode...
- ChickPeeps Catchup - a lot can change in two years! Robbie models a surprisingly wholesome t-shirt and spiritual growth, Momo discusses her ADHD diagnosis and leaving social media, Tylor is a magical cookbook author and Evy comes out as not-an-activist.
- MoJo; we ship it.
- ChickPeeps Rewind - listen and cringe-a-long as we listen back to our younger setting intentions for the podcast and evaluate their success.
- The future of ChickPeeps - Is the podcast ending? - Because it wouldn't be a ChickPeeps episode without a ridiculous scenarios game, we make some educated guesses on where each host will end up in the next 10 years in: 'Who's Most Likely To...?
- First Official ChickPeeps Meetup Announcement: will Momo and Tylor finally get to meet in person at Robbie's sanctuary or outside Tylor's prison cell?
- An uninvited past guest makes an uncomfortable reappearance.
- Snip snap, snip snap - one of us shares their personal reasoning for choosing to undergo sterilization.
- Is a ChickPeep hole shaped like a Chicken or a Chickpea? (jk, we don't get round to this)
- The hosts share some resources that have brought insight, support and joy to their vegan lives - Robbie: Visit a Sanctuary to connect with rescued animals! Check out this link for a comprehensive list.
- Tylor: PETA, The PETA Podcast, The Animal People, The Cranky Vegan and Tylor's podcast Radicals and Revolutionaries.
- Momo: Subscribe to a printed vegan magazine such as Vegan Food and Living or VegNews
- Evy: listen to Evy's other podcast, Just Beings, cohosted with Dr Melanie Joy. Also, a vegan brownie subscription.
- Keep up with Momo, Evy, Tylor and Robbie on their personal pages.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Do do do do do do do do do do do do do do do |
| 0:07.0 | Eat your veggies, not your friends |
| 0:12.0 | It's not hard to be vegan |
| 0:14.0 | The chickpe |
| 0:16.0 | Pee P. Long ago, long ago, |
| 0:31.6 | Fegans all over the world lived in isolation. |
| 0:35.6 | Alone, they shouldered the burden of awkward family dinners |
| 0:39.4 | and navigated their way around the omnipresence of milk powder. By day, they watched documentaries, |
| 0:45.0 | cried about calves, and conducted ill-fated baking experiments with chickpea water. Why night? |
| 0:50.6 | They lay awake wondering, is it just me? With no idea that there were people all over the |
| 0:56.3 | world who thought like them and felt like them, they soldiered stubbornly on asking every |
| 1:01.2 | non-plus waiter they encountered, sorry, can you double-check it's vegan, with a quiet yearning in their |
| 1:06.1 | heart, a yearning for friendship, community and inspiration. |
| 1:15.2 | From time to time, they'd hear legend of other vegans, provocateurs who threw red paint and fashion week, or who mysteriously perished of protein deficiency. |
| 1:19.5 | They knew they were out there, but it was an abstract awareness with faint belief. |
| 1:23.9 | The vegans carried on, walking this lonely planet in search of sustenance beyond chips and salad, |
| 1:29.6 | just missing each other in food courts and in the small, sad, free-from section at their local supermarket. |
| 1:35.9 | Then, everything changed when four vegan friends found each other and decided to start a podcast. |
| 1:43.3 | There was Tyler, the definitive sign-bearing straight-edge punk |
| 1:46.7 | vegan activist, that one guy you saw beaming from protest photos as he was led away in handcuffs. |
| 1:52.2 | A Satanist, a Slytherin, most uncomfortably a Voldemore apologist, Tyler quickly revealed himself |
| 1:57.3 | as much more than meets the eye. The wazzy, wasn't he an ALF member, or perhaps |
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