Moby transcends simple classification: a punk who became a breakthrough 90s electronica DJ and producer; a mainstream and highly successful Grammy Awards-nominated musician who prefers to be alone and out of the limelight; an introspective and spiritually-connected philosopher who is...an evidence-driven data wonk.
Moby and Wayne Hsiung unpack these contradictions, exploring Moby's tumultuous and chaotic early life growing up in a basement in Harlem, and later move to San Francisco where he was surrounded by a sea of drugs, alcohol, and violence. His father's suicide and the comfort and safety he found in rescued animals. Moby and Wayne also dig into the philosophy of existence, secular monasticism, wealth inequality, cosmology, Alcoholics Anonymous, human separation from the natural world, and what happened when visionary filmmaker David Lynch let Moby borrow his microscope. And, perhaps most importantly, Moby and Wayne uncover key principles for evaluating and guiding effective activism.
“Emotional self-indulgence just doesn't help animals."
“You can't have an anxious brain and a calm body.”
Moby's 1996 album - Animal Rights
Moby's latest album - All Visible Objects
Carbon Disclosure Project
Moby's vegan restaurant - Little Pine
Wayne arrested at a Colorado Whole Foods for asking a question
Music by Moby: Everything That Rises
