Everything was going so well... It was Spring of 2021 and life was returning to a semblance of normality. We were leaving our lockdown caves for work, spending more time outdoors than in deep inner turmoil, and a new ChickPeeps episode dropped every Wednesday, sometimes even on time. We were having complex conversations about vegan capitalism, food equity and greenwashing, and things were getting a whole lot more interesting when, suddenly, season 3 came to an abrupt halt. The ChickPeeps promised to return in Autumn 2021 with a brand new season. But when the vegan world needed them most, they vanished...

Hello, sweet 'peeps! It's been a hot minute and we appreciate we left a ChickPeep shaped hole in many of your lives, promptly plucking the podcast from the orbit just as it was reaching its peak. Call it an Irish Goodbye, or a French Escape, call it just plain rude and disorganized, whatever it was, this unprecedented hiatus and echoey silence from Team ChickPeep left many of you citing the constant refrain: 'What Happened To The ChickPeeps?', 'Anyone still read these emails?' And, most piteously, 'Are you guys ever coming back? :,( ?

We're still here, and we hear you, so we've come together for a special episode to answer all these questions and more. In this episode...

• ChickPeeps Catchup - a lot can change in two years! Robbie models a surprisingly wholesome t-shirt and spiritual growth, Momo discusses her ADHD diagnosis and leaving social media, Tylor is a magical cookbook author and Evy comes out as not-an-activist.
• MoJo; we ship it.
• ChickPeeps Rewind - listen and cringe-a-long as we listen back to our younger setting intentions for the podcast and evaluate their success.
• The future of ChickPeeps - Is the podcast ending? - Because it wouldn't be a ChickPeeps episode without a ridiculous scenarios game, we make some educated guesses on where each host will end up in the next 10 years in: 'Who's Most Likely To...?
• First Official ChickPeeps Meetup Announcement: will Momo and Tylor finally get to meet in person at Robbie's sanctuary or outside Tylor's prison cell?
• An uninvited past guest makes an uncomfortable reappearance.
• Snip snap, snip snap - one of us shares their personal reasoning for choosing to undergo sterilization.
• Is a ChickPeep hole shaped like a Chicken or a Chickpea? (jk, we don't get round to this)
• The hosts share some resources that have brought insight, support and joy to their vegan lives - Robbie: Visit a Sanctuary to connect with rescued animals! Check out this link for a comprehensive list.
• Tylor: PETA, The PETA Podcast, The Animal People, The Cranky Vegan and Tylor's podcast Radicals and Revolutionaries.
• Momo: Subscribe to a printed vegan magazine such as  Vegan Food and Living or VegNews
• Evy: listen to Evy's other podcast, Just Beings, cohosted with Dr Melanie Joy. Also, a vegan brownie subscription.
• Keep up with Momo, Evy, Tylor and Robbie on their personal pages.

This season of The ChickPeeps is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your first order at vivolife.com.

Yes, dearest ChickPeeps, here we are... The final episode of season 3. This has undoubtedly been our best and most spangly season to date and we’re so grateful that you’ve shared it with us! In this episode all four ChickHosts sit down for one last chat in which we recap our favourite moments from the season, answer our own quickfire questions and play a final, epic game of Vegan Troll in the Dungeon! Also in this episode…

• We reflect on the moments and guests of season 3 who changed and challenged our veganism.
• We set intentions for our dream season 4 guests!
• “If you could give one animal species the power of speech, who would it be?” A seemingly innocuous question that elicits some ridiculous answers and heated debate!
• Evy introduces us to Orpheus, a talking cat with a plan to overthrow human supremacy, who poses a conundrum to the gang.
• Tylor teaches us about a ‘freegan’ diet!
• Listener, Maurice, issues a public apology to his mother!
• Momo finally does her much anticipated Essex accent and folks, it is worth the wait!
• Evy’s veganism gets put on trial and Robbie enjoys it faaaar too much.

Links:

An amazing video about blue whales!

A few other vegan pods to tide you over until season 4:

The Vegan Life Podcast

Main Street Vegan

Our Hen House

The Exam Room Podcast

Get In Touch:

Bonus Content: ChickPeeps Patreon

Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod

Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast

This season of The ChickPeeps is brought to you by our friends at Vivo Life! Use our code 'chickpeeps10' to get 10% off your first order at vivolife.com.

This week we have a very special crossover episode with Wizarding World podcasting masters; the hosts of MuggleCast! Created in 2005, to talk about all things Harry Potter, MuggleCast has produced over 500 episodes is still going strong. This week, Tylor and Evy are joined by Andrew, Eric, Laura and Micah to get their take on animal rights in the wizarding world, and to discuss how to make the wizarding world more animal-friendly. We also play a very lively round of ‘Vegan Troll in the Dungeon’ with a twist...

• Evy shares which one of the MuggleCasters is also an integral part of The ChickPeeps team and - to be totally honest with you, peeps - we couldn’t do the show without him…. Which MuggleCaster is it? Listen to find out!
• The MuggleCasters reveal their respective Hogwarts houses and Andrew explains why he chose to renounce Gryffindor!
• BREAKING NEWS: Our host, Tylor, has a huge announcement to share from his organisation The Protego Foundation about a victory achieved for animals in the muggle wizarding world, in association with Warner Bros.
• Our guests muse on what species of magical creature they’d most like to meet in the muggle world.
• The gang discuss the news that HBO are planning a Wizarding World TV series and what changes we’d like to see from a vegan perspective.
• Is it cruel to liberate house-elves, and how would we personally handle a house-elf we ‘inherited’.
• Plant-based Hogwarts feasts: an oxymoron or a creative culinary challenge?
• We devise more secure, ethical methods of letter delivery than owls, and talk about their role in wizarding society.
• Oh great, the ‘Voldemort is Vegan’ theory is back… Tylor tries to convince the Mugglecasters.
• A ghostly presence graces the pod with a non-corporeal conundrum...

Links:

Protego Foundation

MuggleCast website

MuggleCast Instagram and Twitter

Get In Touch:

Bonus Content: ChickPeeps Patreon

Instagram: @ChickPeepsPod

Facebook: @ChickPeepsPodcast