Hi, welcome to Food for Thought. This is Colleen Patrick Goodrow. I hope you're doing well.

Today's episode is on World Vegan Travel. It's a special episode. I don't normally do

interviews. I don't normally have interviews on the podcast. I had a couple over the

years, over 15 years, but I recorded a video with my dear friend, Bridey Reed, and long

story short, I was looking forward to repurposing the video audio into a podcast for you. I haven't

been able to reach the video because my computer honked out and it has been in the repair shop

for weeks. And so I cannot get my hands on that video, which is really frustrating, but

I was able to get my hands on the audio because I had downloaded it earlier. So all that's

to say, I thought this was a really perfect, topical, timely episode or conversation to share

with you. So I'm breaking my own rules and including this conversation and perhaps you're

interested in the video and as soon as I can get that up, I will do so. But there's

nothing we talked about that made it visual. So I just think you'll enjoy this conversation.

So I thought I would just use this as an opportunity to give you a little backstory and a couple

announcements since I've been rolling these podcasts out, these episodes out every week.

Thank you for all of your support and for listening and for subscribing. As you know, this

is a 100% listener supported podcast and I'm cranking them out once a week and your feedback

has just been super positive and I appreciate it. One of the announcements I want to make

is about a new app called Clubhouse. I am not someone who gets excited about apps except

those that I find to be the most effective and powerful in terms of connecting us with

each other and connecting our message with people who are who want to hear it and people

who didn't know they want to hear it but wind up hearing it anyway. So perhaps you've heard

of Clubhouse. I heard about it for a while before I really understood what it was and people

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