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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThis Might Get Me Canceled with George Martin / Carnism Debunked (Ep.81)George Martin has some of the most controversial takes in animal rights, from George Floyd to Gaza. Should that get him canceled?Find more of George Martin at https://www.youtube.com/@CarnismDebunked/—The Simple Heart on Substack - Subscribe to Wayne Hsiung's newsletter to learn more about the #RightToRescue at https://www.simpleheart.org!—Chapters:Intro) 00:00-13:49 BLM and intersectionality in activist movementsChapter 2) 13:50-19:16 Systemic racism in policingChapter 3) 19:17-28:12 Police shootings of Justine Damond and Daniel ShaverChapter 4) 28:13-41...2025-04-291h 47
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Greatest Turnaround in Animal Rights History (Ep.80)The state tried to jail me for rescuing dogs. Now it’s helping us save them. But there’s so much more than 3000 dogs at stake.-The Simple Heart on Substack - Subscribe to Wayne Hsiung's newsletter to learn more about the #RightToRescue at https://simpleheart.org!-00:00 Intro01:10 How does scalable change work?04:26 Action-attention feedback loop06:17 Momentum08:12 The "Day 2" Question09:02 Outro video - Thank you for watching! Please Subscribe. Acknowledgments to the Podcast Team: Joe Allman, Adam Durand, & Chloe Leffakis2025-04-0809 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungFree Palestine Failed. Here’s How They Could Have Won. (Ep.79)You can’t create change by threatening to kill people. -The Simple Heart on Substack - Subscribe to Wayne Hsiung's newsletter to learn more about the #RightToRescue at https://simpleheart.org!-Chapters:Chapter 1) 00:00 IntroChapter 2) 01:50 The importance of nonviolenceChapter 3) 03:38 Winning over adversaries Chapter 4) 05:37 Pushing back against “Safetyism”Chapter 5) 07:58 Conclusion Chapter 6) 10:52 Outro video - Thank you for watching! Please Subscribe. Acknowledgments to the Podcast Team: Joe Allman, Adam Durand, & Chloe Leffakis2025-04-0411 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungTrump Fired The One Woman Who Can Stop Elon (Ep.78)Elon has one weakness: animal cruelty. And the one woman who could expose it has just been fired.
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Chapter 1) 00:00 Intro, Elon’s mission
Chapter 2) 00:45 What programs were cut
Chapter 3) 02:09 Selling these cuts to the public
Chapter 4) 03...2025-02-0512 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Animal Liberation Will Happen In One Generation (Ep.77)People say animal rights won’t be achieved for centuries or even millennia. Here’s why they’re wrong.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-2:49 Intro: Animal Liberation will happen in one generation, Peanut The Squirrel, & animal cruelty issues during the 2024 Presidential Election
Ch...2025-01-3116 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhat Vegans Can Learn From DeepSeek (Ep. 76)A breakthrough Chinese AI shook the global economy. Vegans can do the same – if we learn from what made Deepseek great.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-4:47 Intro: on the successful and new AI DeepSeek, factory farms, & the Animal Rights movement
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungAm I Ruining Veganism? (Ep.75)Getting arrested for the animals isn’t a problem for the movement. It’s an opportunity.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-5:59 Intro: veganism, animal rights, voluntary prosecution, & trials for social change in the past
Chapter 2) 6:00-7:59 Reason one: trials force society...2025-01-2435 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow Vegans Are Winning in Trump Country (Ep. 74)There’s nothing like the threat of imprisonment to force you to learn.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-5:44 Intro: using persuasion to make the world a better place & how people disagree
Chapter 2) 5:45-10:39 On trust, how to persuade, & the Smithfield Trial win
Chapter 3) 10:40-20:29 Lesson 1: Go to the frontlines & Wayne’s first frontline experience
Chapter 4) 20:30-28:26 Lesson 2: Don’t cancel your enemies. Make friends wit...2025-01-2133 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungIs MAGA Coming For the Vegans? (Ep.73)What Trump 2.0 could mean for animal rights. Surprisingly, it’s not all bad.
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Chapters:
0:00-3:52 Who are the MAGA people in Trump’s incoming administration
3:53-5:10 The culture war around plant-based meats
5:11-6:42 Ending subsidies for animal cruelty
6:43-7:46 Targeting dissidents
7:47-8:55 An end to animal testing
8:56-9:30 Summary and final thoughts
9:31-9:47 Outro video - Thank you...2025-01-1709 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow We Turned The Tables on Ridglan Farms (Ep.72)Three factors that allowed us to prevail in the face of overwhelming odds.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-3:30 Intro: the judge granted the petition to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Ridglan Farms for criminal animal cruelty, & the first reason we won
Chapter 2) 3:31-6:56 The second reason we won
Chapter 3) 6:57-10:11 The third reason we won
Chapter 4) 10:12-13:31 Final thoughts: why, how, & who can...2025-01-1513 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungI Didn’t “Steal” Dogs. I Rescued Them. (with Jade Ara) (Ep.71)People keep accusing me of stealing animals. I speak to Jade Ara of the Stop Yulin Podcast on why they’re wrong.
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Also watch and like the original full episode on YouTube:
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Single Most Important Lesson for 2025 (Ep. 70)It’s very simple: have faith.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-5:36 Intro, on YouTube content and the newsletter on Substack, how to start 2025, & on being criminally changed in 2018 for open rescue
Chapter 2) 5:37-11:13 The first reason we should be hopeful & on using information and technology
Chapter 3) 11:14-14:40 The second reason we should be hopeful & building connections
Chapter 4) 14:41-20:08 The third reason we should be hopef...2025-01-0722 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Angry Men Are Killing From NYC To New Orleans (w/ the Supreme One aka Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.69)The real reason men are killing people across the nation.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-6:20 Intro, post-election takes, & why are there so many angry men out there
Chapter 2) 6:21-16:44 The tragedy in New Orleans & comparing Democrats and Republicans
Chapter 3...2025-01-031h 46
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungI “Stole” Turkeys From Him. Then He Saved Me. (Ep. 68)On the virtues of making friends with your enemies.
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Watch “Operation Deathstar”:
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Watch Rick testifying at the Smithfield Rescue Trial“One of the defense’s star witnesses, a turkey farmer who had one of his animals taken by activists, explains to the prosecutor why he supports what they do. He does an impressive job repelling her questions. #SmithfieldTrial” -Marina Bolotnikova
https://x.com/mbolotnikova/status/1578806031102009349/video/1
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungDebating Sexual Misconduct, “Extremism,” and Purity Politics in Animal Rights (with Vegan Gains) (Ep. 67)I confront Vegan Gains on his “problematic” views. It goes ok. Sort of.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-11:29 Intro, Youtuber Vegan Gains: Richard Burgess, controversial views on sexual...2024-12-271h 50
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWas Jesus An Animal Rights Activist? (with Kam Waters) (Ep.66)Opposition to animal sacrifice was central to Jesus’s teachings. That’s the argument documentary maker Kam Waters makes in his provocative documentary Christspiracy. And he has incredible, fascinating evidence to support his thesis.
If you have Christian family, or if you’re simply curious about the true origins of Christianity and Christmas, this is the perfect documentary to watch this holiday season.
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Watch:
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Cover-up of Mass Reindeer Slaughter on Christmas (with Rich Hardy) (Ep. 65)The bizarre story of the mass reindeer slaughter at Christmas – and what we can do to stop it.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-11:26 Intro, Rich Hardy: author of “Not as Nature Intended” & on the hidden reindeer slaughter business
Chapter 2) 11:27-19:49 Who buys reindeer as meat, bunnies in the fur industry...2024-12-201h 45
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Real Story Behind Whole Foods’ Efforts to Jail Me (Ep.64)Today, we are in court arguing against Whole Foods’ effort to bankrupt me after I exposed their lies about “humane” farms. Here’s the behind the scenes story as to how I ended up in court. #WholeFoods
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Chapter 1) 0:00-15:49 Intro: Wayne explains the Diestel court case and thoughts on the Whole Foods livestream.
Chapter 2) 15:50-46:59 Livestream: “Wayne gets Arrested for Asking a Question.” from April 4th 2018
Chapter 3) 47:00-47:15 Outro video - Thank you for watc...2024-12-1747 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhat To Do If You Hate CEOs (with Nathan Robinson) (Ep.63)Nathan and I discuss the deep-seated human desire for retribution – and how to harness it for change.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-10:18 Intro, Nathan Robinson of Current Affairs, on those that profit from healthcare, & how to h...2024-12-131h 01
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhat To Do If You Find Out Fauci is Torturing Beagles (with Justin Goodman) (Ep.62)Justin Goodman, a Senior Vice President at White Coat Waste, was tarred as a racist & mocked as a conspiracy theorist for questioning Anthony Fauci’s experiments on animals at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, including so-called “gain of function” at a Wuhan virus lab. But four years later, the dust has settled, & he won. We talk about how it happened, & what the Fauci beagle story says about science, government, & the future of animal rights.
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Follow:
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https://x.com/JustinRGoodman
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow “Relational Dysfunction” Is Ruining Everything (with Melanie Joy) (Ep.61)Melanie Joy is a Harvard-educated psychologist who focuses on how individual mental patterns can cause (or block) social transformation. And she has focused much of her work recently on so-called “relational dysfunction” and “dysregulation” are undermining, not just social movements, but all of human society. We talk about what dysfunction and dysregulation in relationships looks like, and how to overcome it, in this conversation.
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Beyond Carnism’s website:
https://carnism.org/
Learn more about Melanie’s award-winning book, “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows” and download the first chapter for free:2024-12-061h 09
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHorror, Slavery, and the Path to Animal Rights (with Andrew Rakich) (Ep.60)What do horror movies, antebellum slavery, and cannibalism have in common? They all connect to the economic conditions required for political transformation — including the struggle for animal rights.
This conversation with YouTuber Andrew Rakich (Atun-Shei Films) dives deeply into what we can learn from atrocities (both fictional and real) on how to create change.
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Why Ravenous is the Greatest Movie Ever Made:
https://youtu.be/oeUrwVXGL-4
Overanalyzing Ravenous:
https://youtu.be/roRD4F9pg5s
(Other links below.)
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThis Pig Farmer Defends Cannibalism. I’m Trying To Make Him My Friend. (with Trent Loos) (Ep.59)Trent Loos and I met on the day that I organized a rescue that sent me to jail. And Trent was part of the charge pushing the government to put me in prison. So why am I talking to him during the holiday season about things on which we agree?
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Trent on XTwitter:
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Chapter 1) 00:00-9:51 Intro, happy t...2024-11-2957 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungJames Aspey Confronts Me on Steroids, the Liberation Pledge, & Veganster Rap (Ep.58)James Aspey and I talk about how he gained nearly 50 pounds of muscle while eating mostly Pad Thai, and the merits of taking the Liberation Pledge at Thanksgiving.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungTurkeys, AI, and the Future of Thanksgiving with Peter Singer (Ep.57)I speak to renowned philosopher Peter Singer about his new book, Consider the Turkey, and about his new artificial intelligence platform, Peter Singer AI, which allows him to answer an unlimited number of ethical questions without doing any work himself! Peter has some surprising recommendations: including a possible boycott of Thanksgiving!
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“Consider the Turkey” by Peter Singer:
https://shop.peta.org/consider-the-turkey.html
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691231686/consider-the-turkey
Peter Singer AI:
https://www.petersinger.ai
(More links below.)
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne Hsiung“Coming Out” for Animals on Thanksgiving (with Mark Westcombe) (Ep.56)There’s a tendency for many to avoid conversation, much less confrontation, around the turkeys being served at our Thanksgiving dinner. Mark Westcombe, the director for Animal Think Tank, explains why we should do the opposite: tough personal conversations are crucial to building a mass movement!
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Boycott & Anniversary Letter (Liberation Pledge letter Mark sent to friends and family):
https://docs.google.com/document/d/18v_gIRIKkQwenhunN5BkY8-WZUsF12glLvuPacCMYWM/edit?usp=sharing
Why The Liberation Pledge Works:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11bsmj-UU27Ao3auBKBV_yn7rcZ-hPpd8mmhu4dl6o8w...2024-11-191h 54
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe ABSURD Hypocrisy on Animal Rights (with David Ramms) (Ep.55)Elon Musk defended Peanut the squirrel - but also funds grotesque experiments on monkeys in labs. And Elon is like many people in his bizarre, inconsistent views on animal rights. What explains the hypocrisy? And what can be done to overcome it?
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungFinding Peace Amidst Atrocities (with Jamie Logan) (Ep.54)What happens when a joyous vegan enters the disturbing halls of an industrial factory farm?
Jamie Logan is what I’d call a joyous vegan. Her activism is filled with warmth and humor, even as she speaks strongly for animal rights. I had her on the show because of a recent change in her activism: she has started going undercover into factory farms, witnessing things that are anything but joyous.
How does she manage the tension between joy and anger? How does she find peace while witnessing things that no one should witness? We discuss in t...2024-11-121h 36
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Real Reason Trump Won: Animal Rights? (with Jeremy Beckham) (Ep. 53)Pnut, a rescued squirrel seized and killed by the New York State Police, played a shocking last minute role in the election of Donald Trump. What does this mean for the future of animal rights? I discuss with Jeremy Beckham.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-14:25 Intro, backlash against Trump from the animal rights movement, interest on social media about Pnut the squirrel, the growing base of the Republican Party
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhat This Election Means for Animals (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 52)Numerous pro-animal initiatives lost at the ballot box – in some cases, by huge margins. I break down what happened with Natalie Fulton at Pro-Animal Future, and how the animal rights movement will bounce back.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungDebating Vegan Gains on the Importance of Presidential Elections (with Richard Burgess) (Ep. 51)“Presidential elections don’t matter.” This is the controversial proposition I take up with Vegan Gains, days before the vote. And we reach some surprising points of agreement by the end of the conversation.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungTraitor Sheep and the Corruption of American Politics (Ep. 50)A recent undercover investigation exposed the use of Judas Sheep – adult sheep trained to betray lambs and lead them to slaughter. But the concept of the Judas Sheep has implications far beyond the walls of a slaughterhouse. Indeed, there are Judas Sheep – politicians corruptly acting on behalf of the powerful – leading our entire nation to self-destruction. How do we overcome the problem?
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Chapter 1) 00:00-6:24 Intro: the feelings o...2024-11-0124 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow Democracy Has Been Taken Over By “High Conflict Personalities” (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 49)The Democratic Party in Denver has accused animal rights of racism for advocating against the slaughter of animals. Workers of color, they say, will be negatively affected. Natalie Fulton and I discuss how to respond to these allegations - and what this incident shows us about the “high conflict personalities” who have taken over our political system.
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Phone banking:
https://connectforanimals.com/group/1693590764695x127770678678802430
Donation:
https://proanimal.org/donation/
Denver Ballot Initiative: Vote Yes on 309!
https://proanimal.org/campaigns/denver-slaughterhouse-ban/
Denver Ballot Initiative: Vote Yes...2024-10-291h 07
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungBeagle Experiments Exposed In Court (Ep. 48)Five takeaways from the dramatic evidentiary hearing that happened this week in our attempt to appoint a special prosecutor to charge Ridglan Farms with animal cruelty.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-7:07 The First Takeaway from the October 23rd Evidentiary Hearing to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Ridglan Farms in Wisconsin: powerful testimony from whistleblowers that worked at Ridglan Farms
Chapter 2) 7:08-10:09 The Second Takeaway: informative testimony from...2024-10-2518 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow To Stop Trump From Killing Dogs (Ep. 47)Trump and Harris both support the mass killing of dogs. But there’s an effective science-based strategy for getting them – and all the other political elites – to change
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Sign up to join the Ridglan Case Support chat (& find link to sample social media posts for 10/23):
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00-4:18 Intro: feeling the pressure of the Ridglan Evidentiary hearing on 1...2024-10-2227 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHe Wants To Argue About Gaza. Here’s Why We Shouldn’t. (with Richard Burgess, aka Vegan Gains) (Ep. 46)Has Vegan Gains gone intersectional?
Richard and I discuss the merits of bringing multiple causes – from #MeToo to #FreePalestine – under the banner of a single social movement.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-10:17 Intro, opinions on current iss...2024-10-181h 44
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Is The Democratic Party Defending Animal Torture? (with Aidan Kankyoku) (Ep. 45)A ban on animal slaughter is on the ballot in Denver. And the fiercest opposition is coming from… the Democratic Party.
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Learn more at https://proanimal.org/ about the Denver ballot initiatives!
Denver: Vote Yes on 309: https://proanimal.org/campaigns/denver-slaughterhouse-ban/
Denver: Vote Yes on 308: https://proanimal.org/campaigns/denver-fur-ban-308/
Follow Aidan (more links below)
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/proanimalaidan/
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Animal Abuse is the Greatest Threat to Democracy
(Ep. 44)Wandering cows, illegal raids, and threats to democracy that may imperil the future of our nation.
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Chapters:
Chapter 1) 00:00 The greatest threat to democracy is on our dinner plates; how Tracy Murphy’s case shows why
Chapter 2) 08:32 Aren’t there greater threats to democracy, like insurrections?
Chapter 3) 11:55 Why democracy is a good system, but how a poorly functioning one fail...2024-10-1128 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Legal System Is Biased Against Vegans. Here’s How We Won Anyways. (with Justin Marceau) (Ep. 43)Justin Marceau was lead counsel in the People v. Tracy Murphy. I speak to him about the serious misconduct we revealed in the case – & what it tells us about the broader problem of criminal justice.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungShe was Charged for Rescuing Two Stray Cows. This is How She Won. (Ep. 42)On July 16, 2022, Tracy Murphy saw two young stray cows wandering onto her property, adjacent to a busy road in upstate New York. She gave the cows food, water, and shelter and called the SPCA. What happened in the next few years is so bizarre and outrageous – from police raids to hidden cows sent to slaughter – that it's hard to believe.
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Follow Asha’s Farm Sanctuary and Tracy Murphy!
Website: https://www.ashasfarmsanctuary.org
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHe Tried To Put Me In Jail. I Invited Him On The Show.As the next big right to rescue trial looms, we're republishing a blast from the past: a debate I had with a pig farmer just months after a mass open rescue at Sunrise Farms.
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Chapter 1) 00:00-03:10 Intro: communicating with adversaries and on the Asha Trial starting on October 3rd with Tracy Murphy #CompassionIsNotACrime
Chapter 2) 3:11-1:17:58 Wayne Hsiung and Trent Loos: first debate from 2018
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThis Closing Argument Saved Me From Prison. What I Learned Could Save You, Too. (Ep. 40)In one week, we face the next huge animal rights trial. Here’s what we can learn from my closing argument in one of the last ones. #SmithfieldFoods #CompassionIsNotACrime
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Chapter 1) 00:00 Intro, Context of revisiting this closing argument
Chapter 2) 04:06 Piglets, Purpose, Price; Wayne sighs before starting
Chapter 3) 08:22 End of a long Friday
Chapter 4) 11:35 Using a line from an unlikely ally
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungRace, Gender, and Infighting in the Vegan Movement (with David Ramms) (Ep.39)David Ramms thinks veganism has an infighting problem. Is he right? And if so, what can be done?
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThis Restaurant Banned Vegans. Then Sued Tash for Protesting. (with Tash Peterson) (Ep.38)Tash Peterson was recently convicted and forbidden from leaving Western Australia after protesting a restaurant that banned vegans. She was sued for accusing a chef who posed with dead animals of “animal abuse.” And, while pretending to be a farmer, she listened as an angry stranger threatened to kill Tash Peterson – without realizing that the “farmer” he was talking to was, in fact, Tash Peterson in disguise.
But there’s one thing that’s stayed solid and stable through it all: Tash’s belief in pushing for change, even when it’s uncomfortable or even dangerous. And there are importan...2024-09-201h 30
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThey Called Her a Bioterrorist. She Won Them Over, Anyways. (with Leah Garcés) (Ep.37)Leah Garcés has convinced numerous factory farms to give up the business of killing animals and transition to plant-based agriculture. And shares the secrets to this remarkable work in this conversation.
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“Transfarmation: The Movement to Free Us from Factory Farming”(new release on 9/17/2024):
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757628/transfarmation-by-leah-garces/
“GRILLED: Turning Adversaries into Allies to Change the Chicken Industry” (released on 9/3/2019): https://mercyforanimals.org/grilled/
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungAre People Really “Eating The Pets”? (Ep. 36)Trump is right. They’re eating the pets!
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Chapter 1) 00:00 Donald Trump’s wild allegation: they’re eating the pets
Chapter 2) 02:14 The origins of Trump's claim
Chapter 3) 09:42 Trump was technically wrong, but we ARE eating the pets
Chapter 4) 17:30 What this means for American politics
Chapter 5) 19:46 Final thoughts, and share your own thoughts
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Animal Rights is Key to the Presidential Debate (with Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.35)The path to victory in the Presidential debate is… animal rights?
I break down the opportunities and threats for the candidates – and animal advocates – with former NPR journalist Jeremy Loeb.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Politicians Cover Up Animal Cruelty (Ep. 34)There was a bloody ritual unfolding just a few minutes from the DNC…
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Chapter 1) 00:00-9:00 What was happening while the Democratic National Convention was happening, animal rights issues is bipartisan problem, & ventilation shutdown (legally killing animals by roasting animals alive)
Chapter 2) 9:01-19:50 The public, political, & corporate causes of the animal rights moral crisis
Chapter 3) 19:51- 29:44 What is preference falsification, on Cass Sunstein, & on Ezr...2024-09-0648 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Perils of Victimization Politics (with Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.33)Something odd happened in politics – and, increasingly, communities – about 10 years ago: more and more people began claiming “victim” status. Jeremy Loeb and I break down the phenomenon.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHe Rescued a Hen Dying in a Manure Pit. They Jailed Him. (with Adam Durand) (Ep. 32)Adam Durand was the first activist in US history to be jailed for an open rescue. And his story – including one of the wildest criminal trials in animal rights history – is equal parts inspiring and haunting.
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Documentary of Wegmans Egg Farm Investigation:
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Shocking Truth About Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (with Jeremy Beckham) (Ep. 31)From deportations to oil profits, the numbers tell a different story than most would expect. What implications does that have for those of us who care about protecting life on earth?
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Wild Animal Suffering Matters (with Humane Hancock) (Ep. 30)Could the greatest moral crisis on Earth today be… the suffering of insects?
Jack, aka Humane Hancock, thinks the suffering of wild animals, including insects, matters. And if he’s right, there are remarkable implications.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Best Messaging for Animal Rights (with Tom Harris) (Ep. 29)Tom Harris was sent to prison for running a lawful campaign against an animal testing company in the United Kingdom. What can we learn from his experience about why so many, in the government and otherwise, hate activists for animal rights?
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungCan We Defend a System Built on Lies? (with Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.28)Jeremy Loeb and I discuss the ethics of lying. From factory farms that create false ads, to politicians who deceive the public, manipulation is everywhere. Can that ever be justified?
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow He Cured the Worst Suffering He Ever Experienced (with James Aspey) (Ep.27)James Aspey has been experiencing unbearable pain, related to serious injuries he’s suffered for over a decade. But he found a miraculous cure: getting off social media.
This conversation went in an unexpected direction. I wanted to have James on to discuss double standards in politics. Why are we so open to politicians ignoring the moral calamity of animal abuse? But the discussion turned to a more fundamental question: what is the true meaning of suffering in a world filled with so much violence and pain? And how do we create a world that provides peace and...2024-08-131h 57
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe (Failed) Effort to Crush the Animal Rights Movement (with Ben Newman) (Ep. 26)Ben Newman is the first activist in Animal Rising to serve jail time for his nonviolent activism for animals. And he has tips for all of us on how to stay calm and positive, even in hard times .
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Case Against Consumer Change (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 25)Should vegans stop calling ourselves vegan? Natalie Fulton makes the case in this conversation.
Natalie is a YouTuber and the social media lead for Pro-Animal Future, which focuses on using systemic change to end the exploitation of animals.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHe’s Trying To Ban Factory Farms. He Might Succeed. (with Curtis Vollmar) (Ep. 24)A historic ban on factory farms is on the ballot in the heart of Big Ag this November – and early polling suggests it has a chance at victory.
I speak to Curtis Vollmar, the President of Compassionate Bay, who breaks down the wild developments in Sonoma County.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow to be Shy AND Bold (with Jack Higgs) (Episode 23)Imagine being shy and putting yourself in positions where people will scream at you, attack you, and literally bring out a whip to lash you and your friends. That’s Jack Higgs.
Jack is an influencer, animal rights activist, and long-time companion to Tash Peterson. And he’s got fascinating lessons in courage, disruption, and how to create change.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Source of Moral Truth (with Peter Singer) (Episode 22)Episode 22: Reason is the source of moral truth. There are few people on this planet who have done more to defend that proposition than Peter Singer. And I was honored to sit down with Peter, nearly 50 years after the publication of Animal Liberation, to see what he’s learned about the journey to a reason-based system of ethics.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungVegan Gains Might Kill Me. I Like Him. (with Vegan Gains) (Episode 21)Episode 21: Can violence ever be justified? In the wake of the Trump assassination attempt, I had an intense discussion with Richard Burgess, aka Vegan Gains.
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vegangains.real/
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Mass Criminality of “Humane” Animal Farms - Attorney Explains (Episode 20)Episode 20: The meat industry isn’t just lying. It’s engaged in a crime spree of epic proportions.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Thomas Crooks Tried to Kill TrumpEveryone is wrong about why Thomas Crooks tried to kill Donald Trump.
People on the right blame overheated rhetoric on the left. People on the left condemn the right’s historical support for political violence. But this all misses the point. There are three long-term trends in human society that made sometime like Thomas Crooks’ actions virtually inevitable – the rise of loneliness, the normalization of political aggression, and the decline in social trust – and animal rights presents compelling solutions to all of these problems.
As Tolstoy wrote over 100 years ago, “As long as there are slaughterhouses there will always be battlef...2024-07-1639 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow to Fight the Humane Meat Lie (with Rose Patterson)Episode 18: One of the most reputable animal welfare organizations in the world, the RSPCA, spent millions of dollars certifying the meat that consumers buy in the United Kingdom. They put their stamp of approval on the products – initially, “Freedom Food” then “RSPCA Assured” – and even big companies like McDonald’s joined the program. Then Rose Patterson and her team at Animal Rising looked into the farms. And what they found, to most consumers, was shocking: thousands of animals crammed into filthy factory farms.
I speak to Rose about what she saw inside dozens of RSPCA farms, and why the promis...2024-07-121h 59
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungRescuing Julie (with Jeremy Loeb)For decades, the vivisection industry and government covered up the torture of puppies like Julie, a blind beagle at Ridglan Farms. For one year, she lived alone in a 2’ x 4’ metal cage, where the wire flooring dug into her paws. Then, on April 17, 2017, she was saved.
I tell the story of Julie’s rescue with Jeremy this week. And in the next few weeks, we go to court in an effort to save them all.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungCan We Rescue 60,000 Tortured Dogs?For decades, the government has been covering up the torture of tens of thousands of dogs – and even trying to imprison those who blow the whistle on the abuse. On July 10, we will be in court to turn the tables on the industry and present evidence to support our petition to appoint a “special prosecutor” against Ridglan Farms. This is one of the wildest stories I’ve ever told. And if it ends the way I hope it will, it will mean freedom for 60,000 dogs.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow Controversy Drives Change (with Tash Peterson)Most of us avoid being controversial. Tash Peterson does the opposite - and she’s become one of the most influential animal advocates in the world as a result.
From walking into a Louis Vuitton with her own menstrual blood smeared over her naked body to breaking into factory farms, Tash does everything she can to invite, not avoid, controversy. And she’s made front page news (and earned 100,000+ followers on YouTube) as a result.What can all of us learn from her experience? I invited Tash onto the show to find out. And the conversation was even more fun...2024-07-021h 40
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow PETA Saved 4000 Dogs (with Alka Chandna)On June 3, 2024, one of the largest dog research and breeding facilities, Envigo, was fined a record $22 million for violating federal animal welfare laws. As a result of the same proceeding, 4000 dogs were saved from life in a cage – or, worse, death at the hands of a vivisector in a lab. It’s been one of the biggest victories in animal rights history. But how did it happen?
Dr. Alka Chandna, a Vice President of Lab Investigations at PETA, was crucial to the fight against Envigo, and she breaks down how the animal rights advocates won. It’s a stor...2024-06-282h 01
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow the Law Covers-Up Animal Cruelty (with Mariann Sullivan)Most people believe our legal system protects animals from cruelty. And most people, in holding this belief, are wrong.
I speak to the renowned animal law scholar and attorney Mariann Sullivan on how the law has been used to cover up cruelty through a series of exemptions to animal cruelty law for “customary practices” in the industry. Essentially, if a factory farm commits an act of animal torture enough times – e.g., forcibly impregnating thousands of dairy cows, rather than just one – it can then claim its actions are legal because they have become so common that they...2024-06-251h 54
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungIs Animal Rights Being Shadow Banned? (with Vegan Gaze)Animal rights content has taken a big hit on social media. Could the food industry influence be to blame?
Check out my conversation with activist, cruelty investigator, and YouTube influencer Vegan Gaze!
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungTo Hell and Back Again (with David Ramms)Walking into a factory farm is like going through a dimensional portal into hell. But this conversation will show you something surprising about going to hell: it’s well worth the trip.
David Ramms is one of the funniest, most intelligent activists out there. But he’s also one of the bravest. He has been inside factory farms across Europe, and what he’s learned is that there’s immense power in seeing firsthand what’s happening in the dark. We talk in this conversation about how we can get more people to have that experience – and develop vega...2024-06-181h 54
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungDoes the Dog Die? (with Jeremy Beckham)Jeremy Beckham is the reason Julie the beagle is alive.
Back in 2015, Jeremy told me about a secretive facility called Ridglan Farms that was producing thousands of beagles for experiments every year. Documents uncovered by Jeremy and other activists showed evidence of piles of burning animals, hundreds of dogs being subjected to painful procedures (including, we later learned, injections of rabies), and thousands confined in industrial warehouses at Ridglan. But despite complaints of dangerous and unsanitary conditions – including, apparently, by one of the company’s own employees – the state and federal government did nothing to protect the dogs.
So we ste...2024-06-141h 46
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungVegans Loving (Hating?) Vegans (with James Aspey)In January 2014, James Aspey took a year-long vow of silence.
For 365 days, James did not use his voice, in an effort to raise awareness to the suffering of animals. And when he finally spoke, his words had great power. He reached millions of people in his first interview for Australian television, then gave hundreds of talks across the globe (virtually all free of charge) to encourage people to take action to help animals.
But James, in many vegan circles, is now a villain. The reasons for this are complicated and, to be honest, often hard f...2024-06-112h 10
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungAm I a Scumbag? (with Vegan Gains)Vegan Gains thinks I’m a scumbag. And I’m grateful.
Richard Burgess, or Vegan Gains, is among the most important vegan influencers in history. His brand of fierce advocacy has generated a big following, with over 300k subscribers on YouTube. But while there is much to appreciate about Richard – he is wicked smart and has provocative, evidence-based views on everything from organic food (he’s against it) to carnivores in the wild (he thinks they should be exterminated) – the thing I love most about him is his honesty. In a world where everyone else is performing, Richard al...2024-06-071h 54
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungMobilizing a Movement (with Dan Kidby)We live in an era of social movements. From #BlackLivesMatter to #FreePalestine, massive mobilizations of ordinary people have seized the national agenda – and reshaped policy of nations across the globe.
How does it all happen? And can we do the same for animal rights? Dan Kidby is the co-founder of the UK-based Animal Rising, formerly Animal Rebellion, one of the most successful grassroots efforts in animal rights history. He and his fellow organizers have occupied massive meat markets, shut down the distribution network for McDonald’s, and saved 18 beagles from one of the largest dog research facilities in t...2024-06-042h 19
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Pig Rescuers (with Jenny McQueen)What does it take to save a pig from a factory farm?
There are few people who understand this question better than Jenny McQueen, a Canadian activist who has been arrested, charged, and convicted for her nonviolent actions to help pigs in factory farms. But her story is not a sad one. To the contrary, Jenny has repeatedly and proudly risked her freedom, and garnered positive media attention in the process. What are the keys to her success? And what we can all the rest of us learn from her story?
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungIs This An Atrocity? (with Jeremy Loeb)Among the most important philosophers of our era – Peter Singer and Martha Nussbaum and Yuval Noah Hariri – animal agriculture is a historic atrocity. In both the scale and severity of suffering, there has never been an episode in history where so much evil has been inflicted, and so many. And yet even animal rights advocates rarely speak of what happens to animals in such terms. Why?
I speak to Jeremy Loeb, formerly a journalist and radio host with NPR affiliates in North Carolina and Alabama, about this question. And the answer we come to is surprising: maybe, for...2024-05-281h 57
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungCan Vegans Be Happy? (with Jamie Logan)Most people who realize what's been happening to animals are shaken by the experience. But Jamie Logan, an influencer, activist, and podcast host ho has been arrested for her work for animals, always has a happyface, even when she's confronting some of the most disturbing atrocities in thehistory of the planet earth. How does she manage that, and why us her "happy" approach so crucial to making change?
You'll heat the answers to these and other questions in this fascinating, fun conversation I had with Jamie!
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe First Open Rescue (podcast with Ronnie Rose)To the world, it was a heavenly egg farm. But for Mei, it was hell.
For the last decade, I and other activists have been rescuing animals from the most violent places on earth. And, in many cases, this cruelty is part of a corporate cover-up. Direct Action Everywhere co-founder Ronnie Rose, a team member on our first open rescue, talks about how we built a team to expose the fraud underlying the food system and rescue animals like Mei from the brink of death. We talk about why we launched our investigation of W...2024-05-211h 43
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy Media Ignores Us (podcast with Jessica Scott-Reid)A recent study by scholars at UC Berkeley and Yale shows that changing a person’s media consumption from Fox News to CNN had statistically significant impacts on “factual beliefs, attitudes, perceptions of issues’ importance, and overall political views.” But the media rarely covers issues such as animal rights. How do we change that? And what can each of us learn from media experts about how to create change? This conversation with Jessica Scott-Reid, who has placed powerful animal rights stories in some of the most important mainstream media publications in the world, will change how you think about persuasi...2024-05-171h 44
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungWhy We RescueTwo moments in my life changed everything, and taught me important lessons about changing the world.
The first was when, as a child, I saw a dog being beaten to death for the first time.
The second was when, as an adult, I walked into a slaughterhouse for the first time. and saw a little lamb -- then plunged into the abattoir and tried to save her.
This episode of my new YouTube show will offer some lessons on what I learned from those two moments, not just about myself but about how to change the world.
More importantly, t...2024-05-141h 07
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungFreedom and Farewells: The Sonoma Trial AftermathWayne delves into his emotional and profound journey, fresh from his release from jail following the Sonoma Trial. This episode provides a candid exploration of Wayne's time behind bars, offering a unique perspective on the parallels between jail life and factory farms.
Listeners will gain insight into the sentencing and probation conditions imposed on Wayne, highlighting the restriction that prevents him from seeing 14 of his "co-conspirators," including Priya. This episode poignantly covers the second to last day Wayne and Priya are allowed to spend together.
Furthermore, Wayne examines the tactics used by the prosecution and...2023-12-271h 28
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Moral Stress Test: Animal Personhood on TrialThe heart-wrenching ordeal of Ruby the horse in Sonoma County unveiled a chilling viewpoint entrenched in our legal system: "Animals are property," as the County's Operations Manager for Animal Control voiced. But this is not where the conversation ends. Steven Wise, affiliated with the Nonhuman Rights Project, pushes back, advocating fervently for the recognition of animal personhood. He draws parallels to past societal injustices, where marginalized groups, such as women and people of color, were denied personhood. When non-persons are relegated to mere 'things,' they're overlooked and unprotected by the laws meant to ensure justice. Ruby's story stands...2023-09-2010 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungRescue as a Way of Life: Rewriting Humanity's Relationship with EarthWayne dives into the scorching reality of the summer of 2023, officially declared by the UN as the hottest on record. As the tendrils of climate change tighten their grip, our planet is subjected to catastrophic consequences. From the disturbing Maui fires to the harrowing tales of animals and humans alike struggling against nature's fury, the evidence is overwhelming. But is nature truly to blame? Our deep dive into the issue reveals a stark reality – humans' callous disregard for our natural systems is the root cause. It's not just about the devastating stories that hit the headlines.
Wayne als...2023-09-1305 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungOpen Rescue: More Than Just a Tactic, A Symbol of Animal RightsAnimal activists Priya and Wayne discuss the essence of open rescue, emphasizing its symbolic role in the animal rights movement beyond just a tactic. Sharing their experiences of facing trials, challenges with the legal system, and personal confrontations with powerful entities, they reflect on their inspirations, particularly the animals they seek to save. The story underscores the sacrifices they’re willing to make and the importance of standing up for what is right, even against overwhelming odds.
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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHow Saving One Hen Can Save BillionsDive deep with Wayne into The Simple Heart’s eye-opening post, “How Saving One Hen Can Save Billions.”
In 2017, Julianne Perry rescued a calf, leading many to question how we could save all 12,000 who were left behind. Perry set the stage for a debate that extended far beyond the confines of a single animal rescue. This episode explores the societal rules that bind us and the monumental impact of a story. Discover why institutions hold the key, how the Sonoma Rescue Trial symbolizes a turning point, and why the plight of one animal can galvanize a global moveme...2023-08-2523 min
Current AffairsHow to Save Sick Piglets While Avoiding Jail Time (w/ Wayne Hsiung and Matt Johnson)Wayne Hsiung is a former law professor who was recently acquitted by a Utah jury after being charged with stealing two piglets from a factory farm, in a story that made national news. In 2017, animal liberation activist group Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) released a video showing the horrifying conditions of pigs in a facility run by Smithfield Foods, and showing the rescue of two dying piglets from the farm. The activists, including Hsiung, were pursued relentlessly for the next five years, with the FBI even invading animal sanctuaries in order to try to recover the stolen piglets. Hsiung faced...2022-11-0445 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe Multiverse Bends towards Compassion - Priya SawhneyPriya Sawhney is an organizer, poet, and co-founder of both The Sanctuary Initiative and Direct Action Everywhere (DxE). She is also one of my best friends on earth, and the person I’ve entrusted with the two beings I love more than any other – my dog Oliver and my cat Joan – as I face off with Smithfield in the trial that may change my life.
For that reason, she will not be joining me in Utah. Oliver’s trauma has left him trusting of very few human beings. He needs her more than I do. Joan, who went blind and is proba...2022-10-042h 02
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungThe End of the BeginningWe started The Green Pill Podcast in September 2020 to create a space to talk about change. Now we’re going through a major change ourselves: in about one month, I head to trial to face criminal charges that could transform the rest of my life.
And it’s for that reason we’re transforming the podcast, too. There’s the obvious reason: I may not be here much longer to serve as host. Priya, Ronnie, Dean, and Chloe will step up in various ways to ensure the show continues. But there’s a more fundamental reason, too.
To truly create change, we...2022-08-302h 31
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungShaleen Shah - The Untold Story of the FBI’s Hunt for Lily the PigletIn August 2017, I received a phone call that changed my life. “Wayne, there are FBI agents here,” the voice said. “They’re searching for Lily.”
For years, DxE had been openly rescuing animals and daring the industry or government to prosecute us for rescuing dying animals from factory farms. We knew repression was going to come. What we didn’t know is that it would start with a multi-state hunt for a piglet named Lily that would end in an FBI raid at a sanctuary in Colorado.
Shaleen Shan is the owner of the sanctuary in question, Luvin Arms in Erie Colorado...2022-01-251h 33
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungLessons on Love. From a Killer. (Special Episode)My best friend was born to kill. It was not her choice, and perhaps not her fault. But she has a history of violence that would make a serial killer squirm.
There was the time she ripped open someone’s head and left their ear hanging from a string of skin. Or the time that she grabbed her victim’s throat so tightly that the screams went silent. It was like someone hit the mute button on a horror movie.
But perhaps the worst incident occurred in my own home. I came back to my apartment one day to blood on t...2021-12-0824 min
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungAlmira Tanner - How to Lead a Social MovementAlmira Tanner is the Lead Organizer of Direct Action Everywhere (DxE). At first glance, she might not be who you picture when you hear “leader of radical animal liberation network.” Growing up in verdant Vancouver, Canada, she went straight from kindergarten through grad school, finished as valedictorian of her undergraduate class, never stepped out of line, and—God forbid—never had any run-ins with the law. So how did this mild-mannered, upright kid grow up to become the animal agriculture industry’s most feared enemy?
In this episode, Wayne and Almira uncover what drove her to leave her career, her country, a...2020-12-212h 12
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungHadar Aviram - No Magic BulletHadar Aviram—legal scholar, author, and human and animal rights activist—is the Thomas Miller Professor at UC Hastings College of the Law. She holds law and criminology degrees from Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Ph.D. in Jurisprudence and Social Policy from UC Berkeley, where she studied as a Fulbright Fellow and a Regents Intern. Hadar specializes in criminal justice and civil rights from a socio-legal perspective. Prior to her illustrious career as one of the world's premier scholars and media commentators on criminal justice, Hadar worked in the trenches as a public defender in Israel.
In this epis...2020-10-291h 25
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungRandy Shaw - The One-Word Solution to HomelessnessRandy Shaw is the co-founder of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic, author of five books, and has been one of the Bay Area's leading community organizers on tenants’ rights, housing, and homelessness for the past 40 years. Randy, in short, is a fountain of knowledge and knows what works when it comes to solving one the nation's most pressing problems.
In this episode, Wayne and Randy explore the roots of the Bay Area's--and the nation's--housing crisis. They look into past ballot measures, California politics, policies, and voting behaviors that have shaped our current housing predicament. They talk about taxation, Joe Biden's housing pl...2020-10-211h 13
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungMark Duggan - The Transformative Power of Being KindMark Duggan, The Trione Director of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research and former Senior Economist for Health Care Policy under Obama, was Wayne Hsiung's earliest mentor. At 17 years old, Wayne took Mark's class at University of Chicago and Mark took him under his wing, changing his life trajectory thereafter. Mark was so inspired by Wayne's work while in his class that he convinced Wayne to pursue a Ph.D. in economics and maximize his potential for doing better for the world. Although Wayne found his passion and drive outside of the academy, it was the lessons he learned...2020-10-151h 58
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungMoby - Lessons from David Lynch's MicroscopeMoby 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...2020-10-081h 25
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungNelufar Hedayat - That F*ck It MomentBritish journalist Nelufar Hedayat survived bombs and mortars as a child in Kabul, Afghanistan, only to immerse herself back into a world of danger as an intrepid award-winning documentary filmmaker and correspondent. Her investigations have unraveled shocking illicit underground trade networks as well as exposed the unseen (and legal) global systems of commodity production. Nelufar's groundbreaking work has appeared on Netflix, the BBC, Fusion, and The Guardian.
In this wide-ranging episode, Wayne and Nelufar speak about the first time they met, under the cover of darkness, outside of one of the most violent places on earth; war, trauma, pain, and...2020-09-231h 18
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungGlenn Greenwald - The Whole Game's a FraudGlenn Greenwald is the now-legendary journalist and Pulitzer Prize recipient who broke the Edward Snowden story, documented in the Academy Award-winning film Citizenfour, showing how the U.S. and British governments were spying on ordinary citizens. Glenn is also the co-founder of online media publication The Intercept and, in 2019, published leaked messages that broke a watershed corruption scandal in the Brazilian government, which implicated officials in the highest levels of office of serious wrongdoing. This publication made him and his family the target of a political prosecution and ongoing death threats. But how did he get here?
In this episode...2020-09-161h 48
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungEzra Klein - Moral Horror of Our AgeEzra Klein created the concept of The Green Pill—the namesake of this podcast. He is a world-renowned political journalist, founder of Vox Media, former columnist at the Washington Post, and host of The Ezra Klein Show. In this first episode, Wayne Hsiung and Ezra Klein discuss what happened to Ezra after he first took the green pill and how his life was forever altered.
“I want to normalize the idea that if you care about suffering, one of the categories of suffering you should care about is animal suffering.”
"The solution is not individual action, but there is no soluti...2020-09-081h 14
The Simple Heart w/ Wayne HsiungIntroducing: The Green PillWho says you can't change the world? Meet the people who are. Wayne Hsiung, law professor-turned-grassroots animal rights activist and multi-state felony defendant, uncovers the people behind the political, the unexplored personal stories of social change. Intimate interviews with world-renowned journalists, musicians, filmmakers, community leaders, and all stripes of the politically active. Change isn't easy. But it must start somewhere. Come, take The Green Pill with us. Warning: there's no turning back.2020-08-2502 min