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The Simple Heart w/ Wayne Hsiung — 144 episodes

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1

That "Crazy" Animal Rights Lawsuit is About to Change the World (with PETA's Jeff Kerr)  (Ep.84)

2

The Case for Optimizing Everything with Joey Savoie (Ep.83)

3

Visiting a Climate Leader in Prison (Ep. 82)

4

This Might Get Me Canceled with George Martin / Carnism Debunked (Ep.81)

5

The Greatest Turnaround in Animal Rights History (Ep.80)

6

Free Palestine Failed. Here’s How They Could Have Won. (Ep.79)

7

Trump Fired The One Woman Who Can Stop Elon (Ep.78)

8

Why Animal Liberation Will Happen In One Generation (Ep.77)

9

What Vegans Can Learn From DeepSeek (Ep. 76)

10

Am I Ruining Veganism?  (Ep.75)

11

How Vegans Are Winning in Trump Country (Ep. 74)

12

Is MAGA Coming For the Vegans? (Ep.73)

13

How We Turned The Tables on Ridglan Farms (Ep.72)

14

I Didn’t “Steal” Dogs. I Rescued Them. (with Jade Ara) (Ep.71)

15

The Single Most Important Lesson for 2025 (Ep. 70)

16

Why Angry Men Are Killing From NYC To New Orleans (w/ the Supreme One aka Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.69)

17

I “Stole” Turkeys From Him. Then He Saved Me. (Ep. 68)

18

Debating Sexual Misconduct, “Extremism,” and Purity Politics in Animal Rights (with Vegan Gains) (Ep. 67)

19

Was Jesus An Animal Rights Activist? (with Kam Waters) (Ep.66)

20

The Cover-up of Mass Reindeer Slaughter on Christmas (with Rich Hardy) (Ep. 65)

21

The Real Story Behind Whole Foods’ Efforts to Jail Me (Ep.64)

22

What To Do If You Hate CEOs (with Nathan Robinson) (Ep.63)

23

What To Do If You Find Out Fauci is Torturing Beagles (with Justin Goodman) (Ep.62)

24

How “Relational Dysfunction” Is Ruining Everything (with Melanie Joy) (Ep.61)

25

Horror, Slavery, and the Path to Animal Rights (with Andrew Rakich) (Ep.60)

26

This Pig Farmer Defends Cannibalism. I’m Trying To Make Him My Friend. (with Trent Loos) (Ep.59)

27

James Aspey Confronts Me on Steroids, the Liberation Pledge, & Veganster Rap (Ep.58)

28

Turkeys, AI, and the Future of Thanksgiving with Peter Singer (Ep.57)

29

“Coming Out” for Animals on Thanksgiving (with Mark Westcombe) (Ep.56)

30

The ABSURD Hypocrisy on Animal Rights (with David Ramms) (Ep.55)

31

Finding Peace Amidst Atrocities (with Jamie Logan) (Ep.54)

32

The Real Reason Trump Won: Animal Rights? (with Jeremy Beckham) (Ep. 53)

33

What This Election Means for Animals (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 52)

34

Debating Vegan Gains on the Importance of Presidential Elections (with Richard Burgess) (Ep. 51)

35

Traitor Sheep and the Corruption of American Politics (Ep. 50)

36

How Democracy Has Been Taken Over By “High Conflict Personalities” (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 49)

37

Beagle Experiments Exposed In Court (Ep. 48)

38

How To Stop Trump From Killing Dogs (Ep. 47)

39

He Wants To Argue About Gaza. Here’s Why We Shouldn’t. (with Richard Burgess, aka Vegan Gains) (Ep. 46)

40

Why Is The Democratic Party Defending Animal Torture? (with Aidan Kankyoku) (Ep. 45)

41

Why Animal Abuse is the Greatest Threat to Democracy 

(Ep. 44)

42

The Legal System Is Biased Against Vegans. Here’s How We Won Anyways. (with Justin Marceau) (Ep. 43)

43

She was Charged for Rescuing Two Stray Cows. This is How She Won. (Ep. 42)

44

He Tried To Put Me In Jail. I Invited Him On The Show.

45

This Closing Argument Saved Me From Prison. What I Learned Could Save You, Too. (Ep. 40)

46

Race, Gender, and Infighting in the Vegan Movement (with David Ramms) (Ep.39)

47

This Restaurant Banned Vegans. Then Sued Tash for Protesting. (with Tash Peterson) (Ep.38)

48

They Called Her a Bioterrorist. She Won Them Over, Anyways. (with Leah Garcés) (Ep.37)

49

Are People Really “Eating The Pets”? (Ep. 36)

50

Why Animal Rights is Key to the Presidential Debate (with Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.35)

51

Why Politicians Cover Up Animal Cruelty (Ep. 34)

52

The Perils of Victimization Politics (with Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.33)

53

He Rescued a Hen Dying in a Manure Pit. They Jailed Him. (with Adam Durand) (Ep. 32)

54

The Shocking Truth About Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (with Jeremy Beckham) (Ep. 31)

55

Why Wild Animal Suffering Matters (with Humane Hancock) (Ep. 30)

56

The Best Messaging for Animal Rights (with Tom Harris) (Ep. 29)

57

Can We Defend a System Built on Lies? (with Jeremy Loeb) (Ep.28)

58

How He Cured the Worst Suffering He Ever Experienced (with James Aspey) (Ep.27)

59

The (Failed) Effort to Crush the Animal Rights Movement (with Ben Newman) (Ep. 26)

60

The Case Against Consumer Change (with Natalie Fulton) (Ep. 25)

61

He’s Trying To Ban Factory Farms. He Might Succeed. (with Curtis Vollmar) (Ep. 24)

62

How to be Shy AND Bold (with Jack Higgs) (Episode 23)

63

The Source of Moral Truth (with Peter Singer) (Episode 22)

64

Vegan Gains Might Kill Me. I Like Him. (with Vegan Gains) (Episode 21)

65

The Mass Criminality of “Humane” Animal Farms - Attorney Explains (Episode 20)

66

Why Thomas Crooks Tried to Kill Trump

67

How to Fight the Humane Meat Lie (with Rose Patterson)

68

Rescuing Julie (with Jeremy Loeb)

69

Can We Rescue 60,000 Tortured Dogs?

70

How Controversy Drives Change (with Tash Peterson)

71

How PETA Saved 4000 Dogs (with Alka Chandna)

72

How the Law Covers-Up Animal Cruelty (with Mariann Sullivan)

73

Is Animal Rights Being Shadow Banned? (with Vegan Gaze)

74

To Hell and Back Again (with David Ramms)

75

Does the Dog Die? (with Jeremy Beckham)

76

Vegans Loving (Hating?) Vegans (with James Aspey)

77

Am I a Scumbag? (with Vegan Gains)

78

Mobilizing a Movement (with Dan Kidby)

79

The Pig Rescuers (with Jenny McQueen)

80

Is This An Atrocity? (with Jeremy Loeb)

81

Can Vegans Be Happy? (with Jamie Logan)

82

The First Open Rescue (podcast with Ronnie Rose)

83

Why Media Ignores Us (podcast with Jessica Scott-Reid)

84

Why We Rescue

85

Freedom and Farewells: The Sonoma Trial Aftermath

86

The Moral Stress Test: Animal Personhood on Trial

87

Rescue as a Way of Life: Rewriting Humanity's Relationship with Earth

88

Open Rescue: More Than Just a Tactic, A Symbol of Animal Rights

89

How Saving One Hen Can Save Billions

90

The Moral Panic Over Animal Rights

91

The Dirty Tricks of the Foster Farms Trial - Alicia Santurio and Jon Frohnmayer

92

The End of a Podcast?

93

What Happens When Friends Disagree - Leighton Woodhouse

94

Effortless Climate Impact – Helena Merk

95

How to Transform Thanksgiving — and Maximize your Coffee (Priya Sawhney)

96

The Link Between Fear and Evil – Hadar Aviram

97

Hangout: How Buddhism Can Help Everyone

98

Gene Baur - The First Open Rescue

99

Hangout: How to Know What’s Right

100

Fighting for Democracy - Alex Chow and Anna Kwok

101

Hangout: The Most Important Influencer is... You!

102

Filling the Gaps - Justin Marceau (legal scholar)

103

The Greatest Trial in St. George History - Jeremy Beckham

104

Taking on Smithfield in Court… and Winning — Paul Darwin Picklesimer, Almira Tanner, and Curtis Vollmar

105

The Multiverse Bends towards Compassion - Priya Sawhney

106

One Week Before the Fight of Our Lives — Paul Darwin Picklesimer and Jon Frohnmayer

107

Amy Meyer and Jeremy Beckham - Fighting Ag Gag

108

Finding Inspiration Amidst Horror - Almira Tanner

109

Dr. Michael Martin - Fighting Nuclear War… and Red Meat

110

The End of the Beginning

111

It’s a Just World, After All (Or is it?) - Legal Scholar Hadar Aviram

112

From Cop to Criminal - Carter Dillard

113

30 Years of Freeing Animals - Ingrid Newkirk

114

Not that Bunny - Jeremy Beckham

115

Animal Sanctuaries: A Model for Human Politics - Sherstin & Zoe Rosenberg

116

From Baywatch to Open Rescue - Alexandra Paul

117

A Tale of Three Cover-Ups - Paul Picklesimer & Jon Frohnmayer

118

The Two Emotions that Drive Social Change - Doug McAdam Ph.D.

119

Does Social Change Depend on Religious Faith? - Katie Cleary

120

Media Trust, Addiction, Owning Mistakes - Jane Velez-Mitchell

121

What to do if You’re Assaulted on National TV - Moby

122

Is the Food System about to Collapse? Is the World? - Noah Smith (economist)

123

When a Journalist Becomes a Rescuer - Donny Moss

124

Russia, Ukraine, and the Problem of Mutually Assured Bulls***- Steven Fish

125

Has Identity Become a Weapon Against Progress? - Briahna Joy Gray

126

How to Take on The Government (and Win) - Kecia Doolittle and Matt Johnson

127

Shaleen Shah - The Untold Story of the FBI’s Hunt for Lily the Piglet

128

Matt Johnson & Jon Frohnmayer part II - The Prosecution of Whistleblowers and the Co-opting of the Human Species

129

Mary McDonnell - How to Change an Organization

130

The Backstory of the North Carolina Trial - Jon Frohnmayer

131

Lessons on Love. From a Killer. (Special Episode)

132

Duncan Watts - It’s A “Small World” After All

133

Evan Wolfson - The Thesis that Started a Movement

134

Leighton Woodhouse & Shant Mesrobian - The Great Reversal

135

Alex Marquardt - Is Harvard an Enemy or Ally?

136

Priya Sawhney - How Animal Agriculture Projects Violence

137

Justin Marceau - Crime without Punishment

138

Matt Johnson - On the Joy of Sacrifice

139

Almira Tanner - How to Lead a Social Movement

140

Hadar Aviram - No Magic Bullet

141

Randy Shaw - The One-Word Solution to Homelessness

142

Moby - Lessons from David Lynch's Microscope

143

Glenn Greenwald - The Whole Game's a Fraud

144

Introducing: The Green Pill