The Simple Heart w/ Wayne Hsiung

Randy 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 plan, Obama's political failures, the power of grassroots local activism, and what ordinary people can do to create change. Randy also answers the key question: how can we end homelessness in the U.S., for good? “Don’t be distracted by all the noise.” “We need to keep people connected to the issues and fighting AFTER the election.” The Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco Randy’s Book – Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez, the UFW, and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century Randy’s Book – The Tenderloin: Sex, Crime and Resistance in the Heart of San Francisco Randy’s new Book – Generation Priced Out Randy’s Book – The Activist Handbook Music by Moby: Everything That Rises

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

Glenn 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, Wayne Hsiung digs deep into Glenn's adolescent upbringing, unearthing his struggles as a gay kid in Florida, his rambunctious teenage years and failed run for political office, his double life as a corporate lawyer and radical gay rights activist, and his transition to exposing The Game-That-We-Call-The-Justice-System for what it is: a fraud. “It’ll eat you up before you can start eating it up.” “Courage means you do it despite that fear.” Glenn's article on animal experimentation - Bred to Suffer: Inside the Barbaric U.S. Industry of Dog Experimentation Glenn's article on DxE - The FBI’s Hunt for Two Missing Piglets Reveals the Federal Cover-Up of Barbaric Factory Farms Jim Hubbard's documentary on ACT-UP - United in Anger Chris Hayes' book - Twilight of the Elites Music by Moby: Everything That Rises

Who 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.