Pete’s welcoming two guests today, in addition to your calls.
Vegan blogger Laura Beck will be the first challenger on “Change Pete’s Mind,” a new segment where guests try to convince Pete that he’s on one wrong path or another. We expect to have a lot of fun with it, as we’ll be welcoming people with a diverse range of viewpoints to work Pete over on their pet issue. Laura’s formidable task is to convince Pete to adopt a vegan lifestyle. But that would mean foregoing much of his wife’s excellent cooking as well as those semi-secret trips to McDonald’s and his reputed patronage of tigersex.com, which Pete recently described on the air as a website showing “men doing it with Bengal tigers” (that can’t be vegan!).
Also chatting it up with Pete will be Dr. Patrick Swift, PhD, author of One Mountain, Many Paths. Dr. Swift says:
Working for peace in the world is not just the job of diplomats and politicians. It involves you, me, and our neighbors next door - even if they live on the other side of the planet. True and lasting peace for the world can only be attained through mutual respect and understanding for one another - not through violence - and I believe that we all have a part in supporting peace in our communities and in our world.
We’ll see if the good doctor wants to get any more specific than that.
There’s talk around the studio that blogcaster extraordinaire and former Ultimate Fighting contender Joe Salzone will throw down the gauntlet, challenging the peace-loving Dr. Swift to a mixed martial arts cage match.