December 7, 2022 • 38 mins
Adam Neely joins GG and together they talk about their deep love for animals, living a sustainable life, and the ethics of veganism.
If you love gardening and recipes with homegrown veggies, then check out Adam and Reza's Youtube channel Farming with the Farahans.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Strawt Media. You know her from Shaws of Sunset. You
know she doesn't hold back.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Again, I've looked at vegans and been like, you know,
another vegan, and then if I ever see a vegan
with an animal, a dog, like on a leash or something,
I get even more bothered.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is genuinely Gigi.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome Adam Neely Farahan to genuinely Gigi. Everyone knows. If
you don't know, you need to know. Adam is one
of my nearest dust friends. He's a sweetheart. We have
an array of things in common. Most things we have
in common make other people like ool like that, but
(00:46):
we're like.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh my god, that's so cool. The bugs, the but
we love bugs.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We just love nature. We love weird things. We love
things that just fuck with people's heads. Are you know,
like in a stimulating way, not like in a grotesque squay.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Actually a little bit groteste.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You're weird, You're you're a little weird. Yeah, he has
to filter it for me sometimes weird.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, Well that's why we asked why we get along. Well,
thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Adam, Well, thank you for inviting me. I finally get
to be here. One on one because the last time
I was here was with Reza, so there was two
one and.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We did it a video, right, Yeah, yeah, we did
a video. I'm glad we could do it in person.
It's different in person.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, it's more personal.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's more personal. It's more personal. So I took a
step outside before you arrived. I was downstairs. I was
smucking a joint. As you saw. As you're walking up,
I see Adam is carrying. Can you grab where you
were carrying? Adam? Show show everybody what this is?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
This is can you see this? This is Bidamin B complex.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So Adams walking up with this bitcha. Now listen. If
you know Adam, you have to know Adam is always
at home making something. I'm going to get into that soon.
But I'm like, okay, he's carrying something. He just probably
made it home. What is this? And you said it's
a B complex supplement, And I'm the question was, why
(02:14):
are you all of a sudden taking a B complex supplement?
And what did you say?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, being a vegan, you don't necessarily get the same
amount of vitamins and nutrition as you would get if
you were to eat meat, So your body lacks certain
vitamins and certain complexes when you are strictly on a vegan,
plant based diet. So lately I have felt a little tired, lethargic,
(02:43):
just a little bit run down. And so I spoke
to a nutritionist who's like, oh, maybe you should try
some vitamin B complex.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And you told the nutritionists You're like, I'm a vegan,
I'm like a hardcore struck vegan. Yeah, And they sad,
maybe he need be complex, And you said you researched
it as well.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I did research it. It was interesting about how like
your mind is, like it's so complex, like you don't
really think about what you're ingesting. But being a I
guess a grower of veggies and stuff, yes, I know
what I put into, what kind of love and care
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put into my homegrown goodness. Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So is that is that enough? I mean, I understand
it's good to have that. I'm not saying to take
that out just because you want to bring something else in.
But you're having some sort of feelings of you know,
you're a little light headed or you're a little crowsy.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right, because I'm also always on the go, like I
rarely ever have any downtime, and when I do have downtime.
It's sleeping, as you know. It's like I'm in bed
by like eight.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, oh my god, you guys, it's not like it's
it's not a joke. But thanks to our group. We
have a group of very close friends. We call each
other ourselves the Sexy six. Thank you as we are.
It's six of us, and we always joke Adam. It's
nine fifty nine and Adam is already walking through the
(04:16):
door getting ready for bed. He can never stay away
past ten o'clock. Like ten o'clock comes around and Autom's awake.
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I don't even say good night, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You just walk away. I'll be We all know because
it's nine fifty nine and you just you're starting to
walk away. We all know it's ten o'clock. It's like
the sun dial. We just know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's like I'm on a very strict guy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, so you're busy. You also a lot of people
who know you Ass's husband don't know you as Autom.
You are an editor. You're an editing and you edit
huge TV shows. You guys, something is being American Horror Story.
We huge, huge Glee, the biggest shows You're always working
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and your hours are always changing depending on the project,
so that can take a lot of a big toll
on you. So do you need to change your diet
in order to accommodate to the lifestyle you're living?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Changing my diet meaning adding more vitamins.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is that enough.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
For a duration? Yes, because when you're running on empty,
it's like you need those extra vitamins that help your
body like rest and get a full recovery. It's like
without those, it's like your levels are going.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
To be off.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Your receptors like body parts that talk to each other.
The receptors are just like not, you've been vegan for
how long? Over two years?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Why did you turin vegan?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I got really sick. I don't know if it's from COVID,
but no matter what I ate meat wise, it just
tasted slimy, rotten, just unappealing. So anytime I ate meat
after I was already or is like, it's just wanted
to vomit. So interesting, So I started going down the
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vegan path and and it was great. I feel great,
like the benefits I get from it. It's like even
when I first went vegan, when you and I would
hang out you look at me and be like, what
are you doing to your eyes? Your eyes looked different.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, your eyes started changing color. I mean you literally
looked eventually started looking like you had a facelift, like
you had a bunch of botoks, like you had just
the best facial like. Your eyes started changing colors. And
it was amazing to see that. And I was like,
oh my god, I want to try to do this
cereal of green eyes and blue eyes, you know. So Yeah,
(06:41):
but I also think it's very important to have meat.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It is, especially in your culture, Like meat is like
with every sign.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Of wealth and significance. Yeah. But I feel like in
our blood even they test take it back to like
even our blood types, they can tell what's type of
meats we would eat based on our blood type because
our blood type was being originated back to regions of land, right,
So some were fish eat or some were white meat,
dark meats whatever. I crave red meat. And I told
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you I was trying to do the vegetarian thing. And
my only reason for wanting to be a vegetarian was
because of what gets done to the animals, because I
care about the animals. I love the animals, and the
thought of rays to be killed to go onto my
plate started. And especially you took me and the Sexy
six to a sanctuary, an animal sanctuary, rescue from exotic.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Barn, something barn, gentle barn, the gentle barn.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was amazing, and they had every type of animal
that was straight from slaughterhouses. And to see the deformity
in the cows that the hips were on top of
its back only because the cages were so tight, the
hips had to grow.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And not even just that, like chickens. Chickens used to
be able to fly like short distances, but not anymore.
It's like they can't move no, because you know so much.
So many chemicals are put into them to get them
to be fat.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I heard they give them a cornish is like beer.
They feed them to fatten them up and get them
meat to tender or something like that. It's just bizarre.
I don't know they feed chicken to chicken these days.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Oh yeah, no, I just read that. See another reason
why I wanted to become vegan. It's like, how can
I truly be a lover of animals if I'm eating them?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, you love animals, You have a lot of animals.
You have how many do you have right now.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
At the moment? For cats and a dog?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Fore cats and a dog? Yeah? Can we talk about
the blind cat? Miss moved? Can we talk about this?
They rescued? Where do you guys? Rescue?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Move from Oklahoma? Shesi resist saw her on Instagram and.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Sent Adam mis from Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ironically enough, my parents they still live there, and they
were close enough to the the adoption center because they
would not adopt out an animal unless they were to
meet h the adopters. So my parents were nice enough
to go meet with them, and they enjoyed my parents
(09:15):
and then my parents obviously they they said positive, great
things about myself and Reza, and so they felt comfortable
shipping her from Oklahoma to California.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh wow, that's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But when we got her, she was nothing but skin
and bones. Like if you were to see a picture
of her then next to her today, it's like did
she eat herself?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And she's just still a little fat bitch. Now she's
the boss of that house. This cat has no eyes. Okay,
it's no eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
There's nothing there, empty sockets literally, and she still.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Walks around like a straight gangster. She could jump onto
things like a gangster. She just knows where she's going.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, she jumps up onto the island. She eats everybody's food.
She like makes anybody in her way move out of
the way.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
She's like cat lovers for sure. I think cats more
than anything as far as having a pat. But you
guys also have a Chihuahua. You guys rescue Marty's chihuaha
and what else you guys did.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh god, he's literally the mutt, the biggest munt you've
ever met.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But a slut. This guy's a slot.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
He's forty nine, and then he's got all these other
things like sharpay, pit bull.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's crazy. It looks like a Chihuahua type of dog,
you know what I mean. And Marty's a thug. They
rescued Marty from Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, Walmart his full name is Walmart. Then we call
him Martini, Marty teen teen Papa like he's got a
million names.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He's got a lot of names. Marty my dog Jajah,
which a lot of people know is Rottwiler, my first one.
She's one hundred and twelve hundred and fifteen pounds, and Marty,
Marty banged on Ja like we were so scared.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Like that in the middle. It was just a small
little nick but it.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Bang on.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Actually no, that was it was because but it's from
Jajah from yeah, I survived your figures.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, So veganism now, I want to talk about that.
A lot of people don't understand exactly what it means
to be vegan. A lot of people are like a vegan.
I'm like that. I've always been like, oh my god,
another vegan. It's so la to be vegan. Now we
have all these other ones. What is the other one
called if you only eat seafood pescatarian pescatarian pescatarian, and
(11:37):
it is you know, it's just it's like the gender
thing is like I can't even keep up with what
people are anymore. Right, you're completely vegan.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Uh, I'm plant based, but like for clothing, so it
means I eat only plants. But then like I feel
like if you are a full vegan, like you read
the ingredients of what goes into your clothing.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Like writer's going to ask you, do you do that?
Do you wear I'm trying to.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Be better about that. Like all the the items that
I have now that are like leather stuff. I will
keep them and wear those, but it's like I'm not
going continue. Yeah, I'm not going to go buy a
new leather jacket or leather shoes.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I feel the same way about the furst, like I'll
never ever buy a real fur coat, you know again, Yeah,
like I can.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Once I found out how they get that furst, I'm
just like devastated.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh sadly they do it. It's really disturbing to see.
I mean, honestly, if it's just for the look of
it and for the warmth, they can man make so many,
you know, fake materials that can be even better.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
But you and I both have a friend, a very
good friend, who wears fur. Yes, and when this friend,
I don't want to put her in blast put this person.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We're not going to put people lost on the day
of day. But let's talk about this friend, this friend
and you. This is another thing you guys are, and
you guys both have pets, and your love for animals
and the fact that animals are being heard or killed
or tortured for the wrong reasons is both significantly hot.
You guys both love animals, and you guys will both
(13:17):
die for your pets, right is captivity a form of love, Well.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It depends on how you look at it, Like is
it a domesticated animal like a dog, or like just
a rescue. You mean, if it's a rescue, that is
like an everyday pet. I don't see it as being
trapped or in a cage because we provide them with
They have free run of the house. Yes, Like we
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don't lock them up inside like a small room or
leave them inside of a cage where some people do do.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I mean, your cats have a whole fucking gymnasium. They
have their own bedroom, They have their own beds. They
literally and your cats have every new gadget, gizmo, playhouse, tree.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
House, They've got stuff on the trail, the stuff on
the wall. Oh that's right. They have the cat wheel,
they have a climbing stuff on the wall, they have
a bridge on the seat.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like this makes it okay.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I think it's okay because they're also companions. It's not
like I'm going out of my way to make sure
they're only getting the basics. Like we go above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And beyond, so they're like your children.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, Like we we brush them, we bade them, we
we put them, we put them in costumes. But it's like,
am I going to go out and get a lion
and then put the lion inside of like my house
and leave it inside of a room? No, because that's
not their natural environment. And like if I were to
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be that type of person, that's wrong in my opinion.
But yeah, no I am, and the way that I
in the way that I am with my animals, it's okay.
It's because they have more love and more things than
they know what to do with, Like when they let
you know when they're unhappy or they want to play,
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and we acknowledge that, and they're very calm, they're very loving.
They don't there's zero aggression. There's the only aggrussion is
the blind one. She doesn't get her away, No, she
doesn't get away. Or if like we have a Bugsy
who's one of her fellow cats. He is a little
(15:37):
spastic sometimes and he likes to go and tease her
and she gets a little crazy from that. But other
than that, they all get along. They're all calm, and like,
you're not going to be sitting there and all of
a sudden one of our animals bite you, because like
we give them so much love and comfort like there's
zero signs of aggression.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You know, I always again, I've looked at vegans and
been like, you know, another vegan, And then if I
ever see a vegan with an animal, a dog like
on a leash or something, I get even more bothered.
But my mentality started. It bothers me because I feel
like the way it looks when I see someone have
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a dog on a leash, even myself, I see something
as slave and master because we have the power. We
feed them, we are the hand that you know. We
scold them, we teach them, we love them. It's on
our call, on our choice. Right, So I understand that
I've accepted that they are domesticated. They've been bred as domesticated.
At this point, they cannot survive in the wild. Even
(16:38):
if they're born in the wild, they can hardly because
it's just it's been pulled out of their DNA. It's
been brought in to be calm, chill, happy, wag the
tail type of animals. Right. But when I obviously you
and I are close. So when I started observing your life,
I started questioning myself on why does that bother me?
(16:59):
I see how atom is he's a vegan. He really
loves his animals. He'll know do whatever for it is
it bad. He has, his animals are rescues, he's carried.
So it kind of makes me change my mind on judging.
And I see you as someone who it does it.
It's not necessarily I think that you. For instance, maybe
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I'm jumping the gun. If it were like a cow
being raised naturally, huge open fields, loving nurturing, but its
sole purpose was to provide food, taking that cow from
its meat to its skin, to use every part of
it like the Native Americans used to do. They worshiped
their animals before they killed them because they used every
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single piece of it as opposed to a slaughterhouse. I
feel like you'd be okay with that, right, that mentality,
because we have survival you.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Mean the Indian lifestyle or going.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
To speak or farm life, farm life.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yes, I'm okay with that because I also understand and
it's like every animal has its purpose on a firm
and when you're not providing that purpose, then unfortunately, you
know you've got to make room for another animal that
will right, And I understand the circle of life in
that aspect, but I am also it's like I'm also
going to treat the animal with respect and give the
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animal the needs that it actually needs, not to fit
my lifestyle. So since I'm vegan, it's like, so I'm
a vegan. It's not like I'm going to force my
cat to be vegan.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, So that's important to hear.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I want them so for animals, any type of
an animal, I want them to live as happy of
a life as possible. Thereat and they're as close to
natural habitat as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's what they're supposed to they. Of course, the cat's
feelines need meat, right, they have to have it. I mean,
there's a reason they have teeth like that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, because I hear I've heard stories about like parents
who are vegan who try to force it on their
newborn kids.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I see that and it's horrible. I as a mom,
I was reading so much about that that kids have
died from dehydration and whatnot because of aolnutrition. The brain
doesn't function properly. I'm not a huge meat eater anymore
because of my love for animals, I still eat it.
But with Eli, I know he needs a lot of
(19:21):
protein right now, you know, to create the certain chemicals
for his brain, body whatnot. So yeah, I think the
natural way of it is fine. And I love that
you've already sort of incorporated that by everything in your home.
Your garden is literally like farm to table with you,
(19:41):
literally from to table, and you did so well with it,
and you started creating so many amazing recipes, and you
created your own show, Farming with Fire Hunts. And this
show has become really successful because everyone I'm seeing the comments,
just like everyone wants tips from you. Everyone's like, oh
my god, I did this, what did you do? It's
just so cool. At first, I was like, oh my god,
(20:03):
Autumn's literally taking the camera into his backyard and finally
showing people what he does. How are people going to
take to this? Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, because when we love it when we.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Were on the Fucking Martha Steward of the Gay Community
in Your.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
London, because like when we were on Bravo, it's like,
nobody really saw that aspect of my life. Yeah, because
it was.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All about's husband's husbands.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, so nobody really understood like why I was quiet
or like off to the side is because I'm more Yeah,
I'm more like uh east La, like more Los Fila's
Silver Lake, like I'm just very zen and I just
like I want to live off the land, like I
don't want to Like for me, it's it's also about
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saving money and being and decreasing my carbon footprint. Yes,
it's like I don't want to be like ten years
from now, like in a worse place than if I
would have been more mindful and careful about what I'm
putting into my body and what I'm doing to the
land that I own. I just want to be as
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pro life, meaning pro life meaning like growing from the
land as possible instead of like putting all the chemicals
in there. It's like I don't want there to be
like plastic grown out of my skin.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And we see we see the science and not how
much unprocessed food we have sitting in our gut. Because
all the hormones and steroids and all that that it
goes into the pesticide, everything that goes into our food,
our body can't break down those chemicals and it turns
into like gunk that get stuck. It can't get broken
down enough. It's hard.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
And when you say that, it's like that makes me
think of like all the whales, like all the whales
that are washing up on shore, and there's like they're
just full of plastic.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
They're full of plastic. It's it's always it's always like
the plastic, yeah, that they're consuming, And I try Here's
what I wanted to sign. It's important for people to
understand that when you see someone who's a vegetarian or
a vegan or plant based or whatnot, that it's impossible
because people immediately want to say, but wait a minute,
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you drive that, or wait a minute, is your belt?
So it's what you just said is very important, and
I want to piggyback off of that. It's important to
be as mindful to this earth as possible, you know,
because this earth is giving to us and our whole
lifespan that we have from birth to death, the Earth
is providing us. That is it. We are not given
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anything else that the Earth isn't giving us, So why
not give back a little bit. So, yes, maybe someone
you know has to put gas in their car because
that's all that they can afford at that time. They
couldn't and it's a twenty year old car. Maybe maybe
it's not, maybe it's a fucking Ferrari. But they try
to lead another lifestyle that's better. I think it's just
(22:57):
important to be mindful because no one is one hundred
percent perfect.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Right, And even piggyback on that, like sure, I drive
a luxury car, but at the same time, it's like
I don't drive it everywhere. But then wait, but then
also when you've worked the work that I work in,
and you're putting in like sixteen eighteen hour long days,
I want to drive home comfortably. I don't. I don't
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want to be driving home in a clunker.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Where because you're trying to preserve just.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I feel the stuff under the cushion and it's uncomfortable,
or I don't have the right ac It's like, sure,
it's not the best solution for the earth, but I'm
also residi also getting ready to go electric, so that
my carbon footprint is going to be decreased even more
as soon as that happens. But even that, it's like
I worked from home, I never drive anywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's just that's the thing. It's
important to be mindful of it. And I love what
you're doing with farming with fire Hans. You're teaching people
how to make use, utilize just even the smallest of things.
It's like just just something as simple as growing an eggplant,
for instance, Like I gotta say all the fucking we
gotta use the egg panomogy. Come on, it's a dick,
(24:10):
It's a dick. But yeah, there's just something as simple
as your eggplants and showing what you can do. It's
so simple, and you're showing this simplicity. People are complaining,
they spend so much time on social media, online whatever,
complaining about prices. It's so expensive to buy groceries. You
know what, if you have a little four by four
(24:31):
space in your backyard, you can actually do so much
in a four by four space.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
No, even on the balcony.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's like so much on a balcony.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Res and I we used to live in a condo
and it faced we hoo. This is when we loved
in What's Hollywood and it had a very thin strip
of balcony and I had tomatoes growing up the wall.
I had basil, all these herbs.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, you could even do it inside your home. I've
seen on Amazon they have very cheap greenhouses. They have
little special lights and they're so cheap. You can just
there are there are ways to do it. I love
the farming with fire hunts is you're doing that. I
love your finally because you're filled. I always tell you this,
You're a jack of all trades. You've always got you
pulling something out of the hat. Always that you're doing
(25:11):
your photography, you're cooking stuff, you're growing stuff. I love
that you're doing that. What is your intention with farming
with firehuns?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Res and I because I've incorporated Reza into farming with
the fire Haunts, since he is you're.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
The fire haunts, you go to the Firehns.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Our goal is to show people a different part of
our lives and how to be more sufficient and live
off what you already have and staid of having to
go to the store and rely on like corporations to
give you your basic needs. Like I of number one,
I don't care to drive, regardless of the carbon footprint.
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I don't care to drive. That's why Resil.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
He hates to drive unless it's his Porsche.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Audios to that car.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I know he was so sad she has gone.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
But with them so it's just like living a happier,
more simple life, and we want to share that with
all the fans and viewers. That we have and who knows,
even like, get other people interested in what we do
and hopefully we'll be able to take it to a
bigger platform. But as of right now, we're just on
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social media, and right.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Now social media is the only place to be for
any that's that's where things happen is on social media.
So if you're on social media with the following that
you guys have both accumulated from shaws and whatnot, I
think it's doing great. I love it well.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Besides even just a farming aspect, like another, the thing
that really started farming with the far hauns was my
love of flowers and butterflies. And yeah, and so like
you know that I raised monarch butterflies. So I have
flower beds just dedicated to their host plant, which is milkweed,
(27:01):
and so like the more milk weed I have, the better,
and that means the more butterflies I can raise, And yeah,
just go from there. And that's how actually farming with
the fire hunts started.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, with the butterflies.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, with the butterflies.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I remember that. Listen with that, I want to actually
tell you guys a really cute butterfly story. But we're
going to take a quick break and we will be
back with Adam to tell more about vegan lifestyle, farming
with fire hunts, and a special butterfly story.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
We're going to take a quick break, but when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
This time, I happened to be there to hang out
with your husband and you were like, oh, Gigi, do
you want to see their release? I'm like, dull, I
love it because every time I go over there, which
was like almost once a week or something, I watched
the caterpillar and the larva grow bigger and you see
it attached, and you know, Adam marks me through the process.
(27:59):
So butterfly story, this is what I wanted to tell people.
So I'm going to talk a little shit. Adam and
I love to talk about animals, but every now and
then we take a little dip at Shade. No, but
it's fine because we love her, so we could say this.
So the last time I was at Adam's house for
the release of his monarchs, he literally gets them as
(28:21):
the caterpillars was called the caterpillar.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
To be clear. To be clear, you weren't over there
for the release.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I wasn't there for that. I just happened to be
there for it.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
So when we throw the shade, it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm gonna throw. I was there for that. I got
invitesh So I had been invited other times for the releases.
This time I happened to be there to hang out
with your husband, and you were like, oh, Gigi, do
you want to see their release? I'm like, dull. I
love it because every time I go over there, which
was like almost once a week or something, I watched
(28:53):
the caterpillar and the larva grow bigger and you see
it attached, and you know, Adam walks me through the process. Anyway,
last time I was there for the release, we posted it.
I posted every time, and you know he reposted, and
I think your husband reposted in MJ. MJ got mad
and and major jealousy, like what did she say? Like?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
How come I wasn't invited for the release?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
The release was a butterfly.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I think this was before she and I had really
spoken conversation. Yeah, so this was before then. It's and then,
and then somewhere within that conversation came up, how come
Adams hanging out with Gig?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Oh God, thanks, Oh God, bitch, we love you, MJ.
That's why we get to talk shit about yours. We'd
be saying this off camera behind your back. No kid,
No I'm not. But it was hilarious. I love watching
evolution happen. I love watching the process, and it's made
me have a bigger appreciation for life in general.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Because you've also have seen me go out there find
the eggs harvest.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, it's a process to.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Catch them, feed them.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You literally nurture from ground zero. It's like a Giassic
type situation where you like found the mosquitos and everything
made the dinos.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, it's like literally from egg to butterfly release.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And you do that with everything. You do that with
your growing of fruits and vegetables because you compost, and
a lot of people don't know what it means to compost.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You basically take all the leftovers.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Table scraps minus any animal products except for shellfish and eggshells,
and you do it. You put them all in special
into this large container that sits on top of the ground,
and then you mix it with like all your table scraps,
you know, cardboard, leaves, water, dirt, and.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Any organic natural element or organic.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Earth wise minus like chicken meat and red meat, any
other type of meat is okay?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And how long does it sit in the compost?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I'm constantly string so it'll be at least like three
to six months until you get usable composts.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
What the fact if people need to compost for.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Because it's just full of nutrients, Like this is.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Like, what do you do with it? What do you
mean it's total of nutrients? You go and make a
cup of gel and just you know, drinking, what do
you do with For people who have no idea what
compost is?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Well? With my compost, I use it to fertilize. You
use it to add carbon and nitrogen and all your
basic soil goodness back into the soil.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Let me tell you guys, the fruits and vegetables tastes different.
It is the best tasting, sweetest, or the onions are
just onion. It's your watermelons, your everything, you have, everything
just abundantly delicious.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, because it's because I'm not I tend to use
this as fertilizer versus like the stuff you get the store,
because I don't know what's in that stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah you don't.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I know what I'm putting into my compost, so I
know that it's like all good stuff. It's like not
anything that has been like you know, recalled from like
the FDA or anything. It's just been It's all natural stuff.
So I use the compost to you know, mix in
with the soil to re energize it. I and also
(32:26):
to collect worms because worms are beneficial for your plants.
And then I also have a compost teamaker, which is
you've seen me go around with a jug of dirty
looking water and watering everything.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Oh yeah, so you say, tea, I thought you were
telling me walking around serving you see on my way, bitch, No,
I do, yes, yes, And I saw what I thought
was the coolest thing ever, which you just posted one
of your one of your episodes of farming with fire
Haunts is sunscreen for your plants. We have gone through
(33:02):
a major heat wave, you guys in La which many
places around the world experience this type of heat naturally,
but it kills plants and certain plants can't survive. What
did you make sunscreen out of? To put he was
literally screening his plants.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
There's this company that we buy a lot of our
products from our plants from Ivy Organics. Uh, look them
up online, you know, through social media Instagram. They have
the most interesting products that we love to use. They
have fertilizers all natural, all natural, And what's good about
this is it really helps with your baby trees. It
(33:40):
helps protect against pest sun because like during these heat waves,
like I have forgotten, it's like sure, I was, you know,
watering them, but we're also on a watering Yeah, we're
in a drought. This helps them, you know, stay healthy
and save the money that you'd be spending on water.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
And even though you still need to water them, like,
this helps protect them so that you are able to
have like a better crop next year, even during that
season if you haven't already gotten your crop. So so,
sunscreen for your plants is very beneficial, not only for
your own harvest, but also for your own yard. Nobody
(34:24):
wants to look at a yard with the dead tree.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
No, nobody does. So if you're going to spend all
that time and money to even begin gardening and landscaping
in general, it's very expensive. People don't realize how expensive
it is. It's not just a dirt that came out
of the ground. You have to have specific nutrient packed fertilizer,
and it's hard to even maintain your fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Sometimes you've seen my front yard, you guys whipped out
the whole thing, just many times toxic fertilizer. Well, the soil,
the quality of our soil is very sandy, and so
I constantly have add nutrients back into it, things that
would retain the moisture. And it's like, after a while
(35:06):
just becomes so time consuming and like your back hurts,
your neck hurts, and your wallet hurts, and you're just like,
oh my god, I would just want to stop.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
My parents where they live in Palasfertes, that soil in
Palasferties is extremely rich and anything grows so easily. My
mom still does special stuff that she makes is but
things just grow so fast. It's amazing. I love it. It's
interesting to watch and learn you your techniques, and because
(35:34):
it's so simple that anyone can really pick up on
these techniques. If you guys are out there and you're
into living this lifestyle more healthier, you want to learn
more about it. I swear to you. Check out farming
with fire Hans. It is so simple and so easy
and fun. He makes it, you make it very fun.
You guys are really cute together. You guys are funny
(35:56):
and silly. Resa is a goof when it comes to
not even knowing what you're doing half the time.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Well because people see a different side of him, different
side because like he's more low key and he's more very.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You're the dom. You're the dom for sure. And farming
with Phara Hans and he looks like a little goofball.
It just you know, it's just learning. He's here for
the ride, but he's into plans to do anyways. Watch
farming with fire Hans. It's very cool. I would hope
that everyone can sort of try to make an effort
to just you know, be a little bit more conscious
of the world that we live in. If you have
(36:28):
to drive a little less, drive a little less, you
can carpool, you could do whatever. Eat a little healthier,
don't support these big mass produce farms that are slaughtering
in a very bad way. Try to do it is.
I know it's a little more expensive, and you're probably saying, oh,
she doesn't fucking understand it's more expensive. It is. It's
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probably a buck or two more.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
You know, it's growing no to.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
To to just buy to buy a little healthier, you know,
from not those mass produced. If you're gonna eat meat,
get something that's font from the farm. It's like grass
free gray, you know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
It's like also when you buy stuff from the store,
you don't know what exactly what's going into You don't
know what's going on. It's like when you taste like
a cucumber homegrown versus a cucumber from the store. Homegrown
tastes like a real cue.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And that's what I love about growing is because I
like to start my herbs and veggies from a seed.
Most of my stuff has grown from seed, and it's
just amazing to see it go from that seed into
like this mess.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
It's amazing and it's so delicious when you eat it
because you just have a different feeling about it. And
you guys, don't need a huge backyard, like you said,
whether you have a little patio balcony. You can even
get a little bit inside you're on top of your
kitchen table, whatever you want. Atom will teach you the way.
Watch farming with four hunts. Adam, thank you so much
for being here and teaching us a little bit about
plant based or vegan I'm still never gonna understand all
(37:56):
this stuff. Thank you for being here and teaching us.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Again, I've looked at vegans and been like, you know,
another vegan, and then if I ever see a vegan
with an animal, a dog, like on a leash or something,
I get even more bothered.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
This is genuinely Gigi.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Welcome Adam Neely Farahan to genuinely Gigi. Everyone knows. If
you don't know, you need to know. Adam is one
of my nearest dust friends. He's a sweetheart. We have
an array of things in common. Most things we have
in common make other people like ool like that, but
(00:46):
we're like.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
Oh my god, that's so cool. The bugs, the but
we love bugs.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
We just love nature. We love weird things. We love
things that just fuck with people's heads. Are you know,
like in a stimulating way, not like in a grotesque squay.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Actually a little bit groteste.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You're weird, You're you're a little weird. Yeah, he has
to filter it for me sometimes weird.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Yeah, yeah, Well that's why we asked why we get along. Well,
thank you for being here.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Adam, Well, thank you for inviting me. I finally get
to be here. One on one because the last time
I was here was with Reza, so there was two
one and.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
We did it a video, right, Yeah, yeah, we did
a video. I'm glad we could do it in person.
It's different in person.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, it's more personal.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
It's more personal. It's more personal. So I took a
step outside before you arrived. I was downstairs. I was
smucking a joint. As you saw. As you're walking up,
I see Adam is carrying. Can you grab where you
were carrying? Adam? Show show everybody what this is?
Speaker 3 (01:48):
This is can you see this? This is Bidamin B complex.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
So Adams walking up with this bitcha. Now listen. If
you know Adam, you have to know Adam is always
at home making something. I'm going to get into that soon.
But I'm like, okay, he's carrying something. He just probably
made it home. What is this? And you said it's
a B complex supplement, And I'm the question was, why
(02:14):
are you all of a sudden taking a B complex supplement?
And what did you say?
Speaker 3 (02:18):
Well, being a vegan, you don't necessarily get the same
amount of vitamins and nutrition as you would get if
you were to eat meat, So your body lacks certain
vitamins and certain complexes when you are strictly on a vegan,
plant based diet. So lately I have felt a little tired, lethargic,
(02:43):
just a little bit run down. And so I spoke
to a nutritionist who's like, oh, maybe you should try
some vitamin B complex.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
And you told the nutritionists You're like, I'm a vegan,
I'm like a hardcore struck vegan. Yeah, And they sad,
maybe he need be complex, And you said you researched
it as well.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I did research it. It was interesting about how like
your mind is, like it's so complex, like you don't
really think about what you're ingesting. But being a I
guess a grower of veggies and stuff, yes, I know
what I put into, what kind of love and care
(03:26):
put into my homegrown goodness. Yes?
Speaker 2 (03:29):
So is that is that enough? I mean, I understand
it's good to have that. I'm not saying to take
that out just because you want to bring something else in.
But you're having some sort of feelings of you know,
you're a little light headed or you're a little crowsy.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
Right, because I'm also always on the go, like I
rarely ever have any downtime, and when I do have downtime.
It's sleeping, as you know. It's like I'm in bed
by like eight.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, oh my god, you guys, it's not like it's
it's not a joke. But thanks to our group. We
have a group of very close friends. We call each
other ourselves the Sexy six. Thank you as we are.
It's six of us, and we always joke Adam. It's
nine fifty nine and Adam is already walking through the
(04:16):
door getting ready for bed. He can never stay away
past ten o'clock. Like ten o'clock comes around and Autom's awake.
Oh my god.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
I don't even say good night, no, no, no.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
You just walk away. I'll be We all know because
it's nine fifty nine and you just you're starting to
walk away. We all know it's ten o'clock. It's like
the sun dial. We just know.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
It's like I'm on a very strict guy.
Speaker 2 (04:36):
Yeah, so you're busy. You also a lot of people
who know you Ass's husband don't know you as Autom.
You are an editor. You're an editing and you edit
huge TV shows. You guys, something is being American Horror Story.
We huge, huge Glee, the biggest shows You're always working
(04:57):
and your hours are always changing depending on the project,
so that can take a lot of a big toll
on you. So do you need to change your diet
in order to accommodate to the lifestyle you're living?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Changing my diet meaning adding more vitamins.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Is that enough.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
For a duration? Yes, because when you're running on empty,
it's like you need those extra vitamins that help your
body like rest and get a full recovery. It's like
without those, it's like your levels are going.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
To be off.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Your receptors like body parts that talk to each other.
The receptors are just like not, you've been vegan for
how long? Over two years?
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Why did you turin vegan?
Speaker 3 (05:44):
I got really sick. I don't know if it's from COVID,
but no matter what I ate meat wise, it just
tasted slimy, rotten, just unappealing. So anytime I ate meat
after I was already or is like, it's just wanted
to vomit. So interesting, So I started going down the
(06:05):
vegan path and and it was great. I feel great,
like the benefits I get from it. It's like even
when I first went vegan, when you and I would
hang out you look at me and be like, what
are you doing to your eyes? Your eyes looked different.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, your eyes started changing color. I mean you literally
looked eventually started looking like you had a facelift, like
you had a bunch of botoks, like you had just
the best facial like. Your eyes started changing colors. And
it was amazing to see that. And I was like,
oh my god, I want to try to do this
cereal of green eyes and blue eyes, you know. So Yeah,
(06:41):
but I also think it's very important to have meat.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
It is, especially in your culture, Like meat is like
with every sign.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Of wealth and significance. Yeah. But I feel like in
our blood even they test take it back to like
even our blood types, they can tell what's type of
meats we would eat based on our blood type because
our blood type was being originated back to regions of land, right,
So some were fish eat or some were white meat,
dark meats whatever. I crave red meat. And I told
(07:14):
you I was trying to do the vegetarian thing. And
my only reason for wanting to be a vegetarian was
because of what gets done to the animals, because I
care about the animals. I love the animals, and the
thought of rays to be killed to go onto my
plate started. And especially you took me and the Sexy
six to a sanctuary, an animal sanctuary, rescue from exotic.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Barn, something barn, gentle barn, the gentle barn.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
It was amazing, and they had every type of animal
that was straight from slaughterhouses. And to see the deformity
in the cows that the hips were on top of
its back only because the cages were so tight, the
hips had to grow.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
And not even just that, like chickens. Chickens used to
be able to fly like short distances, but not anymore.
It's like they can't move no, because you know so much.
So many chemicals are put into them to get them
to be fat.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I heard they give them a cornish is like beer.
They feed them to fatten them up and get them
meat to tender or something like that. It's just bizarre.
I don't know they feed chicken to chicken these days.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Oh yeah, no, I just read that. See another reason
why I wanted to become vegan. It's like, how can
I truly be a lover of animals if I'm eating them?
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yeah, you love animals, You have a lot of animals.
You have how many do you have right now.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
At the moment? For cats and a dog?
Speaker 2 (08:38):
Fore cats and a dog? Yeah? Can we talk about
the blind cat? Miss moved? Can we talk about this?
They rescued? Where do you guys? Rescue?
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Move from Oklahoma? Shesi resist saw her on Instagram and.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Sent Adam mis from Oklahoma.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Ironically enough, my parents they still live there, and they
were close enough to the the adoption center because they
would not adopt out an animal unless they were to
meet h the adopters. So my parents were nice enough
to go meet with them, and they enjoyed my parents
(09:15):
and then my parents obviously they they said positive, great
things about myself and Reza, and so they felt comfortable
shipping her from Oklahoma to California.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
Oh wow, that's so sweet.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
But when we got her, she was nothing but skin
and bones. Like if you were to see a picture
of her then next to her today, it's like did
she eat herself?
Speaker 2 (09:38):
And she's just still a little fat bitch. Now she's
the boss of that house. This cat has no eyes. Okay,
it's no eyes.
Speaker 3 (09:44):
There's nothing there, empty sockets literally, and she still.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Walks around like a straight gangster. She could jump onto
things like a gangster. She just knows where she's going.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Yeah, she jumps up onto the island. She eats everybody's food.
She like makes anybody in her way move out of
the way.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
She's like cat lovers for sure. I think cats more
than anything as far as having a pat. But you
guys also have a Chihuahua. You guys rescue Marty's chihuaha
and what else you guys did.
Speaker 3 (10:15):
Oh god, he's literally the mutt, the biggest munt you've
ever met.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
But a slut. This guy's a slot.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
He's forty nine, and then he's got all these other
things like sharpay, pit bull.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
It's crazy. It looks like a Chihuahua type of dog,
you know what I mean. And Marty's a thug. They
rescued Marty from Palm Springs.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Yeah, Walmart his full name is Walmart. Then we call
him Martini, Marty teen teen Papa like he's got a
million names.
Speaker 2 (10:44):
He's got a lot of names. Marty my dog Jajah,
which a lot of people know is Rottwiler, my first one.
She's one hundred and twelve hundred and fifteen pounds, and Marty,
Marty banged on Ja like we were so scared.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Like that in the middle. It was just a small
little nick but it.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Bang on.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Actually no, that was it was because but it's from
Jajah from yeah, I survived your figures.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Okay, So veganism now, I want to talk about that.
A lot of people don't understand exactly what it means
to be vegan. A lot of people are like a vegan.
I'm like that. I've always been like, oh my god,
another vegan. It's so la to be vegan. Now we
have all these other ones. What is the other one
called if you only eat seafood pescatarian pescatarian pescatarian, and
(11:37):
it is you know, it's just it's like the gender
thing is like I can't even keep up with what
people are anymore. Right, you're completely vegan.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Uh, I'm plant based, but like for clothing, so it
means I eat only plants. But then like I feel
like if you are a full vegan, like you read
the ingredients of what goes into your clothing.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
Like writer's going to ask you, do you do that?
Do you wear I'm trying to.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Be better about that. Like all the the items that
I have now that are like leather stuff. I will
keep them and wear those, but it's like I'm not
going continue. Yeah, I'm not going to go buy a
new leather jacket or leather shoes.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
I feel the same way about the furst, like I'll
never ever buy a real fur coat, you know again, Yeah,
like I can.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Once I found out how they get that furst, I'm
just like devastated.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Oh sadly they do it. It's really disturbing to see.
I mean, honestly, if it's just for the look of
it and for the warmth, they can man make so many,
you know, fake materials that can be even better.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
But you and I both have a friend, a very
good friend, who wears fur. Yes, and when this friend,
I don't want to put her in blast put this person.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
We're not going to put people lost on the day
of day. But let's talk about this friend, this friend
and you. This is another thing you guys are, and
you guys both have pets, and your love for animals
and the fact that animals are being heard or killed
or tortured for the wrong reasons is both significantly hot.
You guys both love animals, and you guys will both
(13:17):
die for your pets, right is captivity a form of love, Well.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
It depends on how you look at it, Like is
it a domesticated animal like a dog, or like just
a rescue. You mean, if it's a rescue, that is
like an everyday pet. I don't see it as being
trapped or in a cage because we provide them with
They have free run of the house. Yes, Like we
(13:49):
don't lock them up inside like a small room or
leave them inside of a cage where some people do do.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I mean, your cats have a whole fucking gymnasium. They
have their own bedroom, They have their own beds. They
literally and your cats have every new gadget, gizmo, playhouse, tree.
Speaker 3 (14:05):
House, They've got stuff on the trail, the stuff on
the wall. Oh that's right. They have the cat wheel,
they have a climbing stuff on the wall, they have
a bridge on the seat.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Like this makes it okay.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
I think it's okay because they're also companions. It's not
like I'm going out of my way to make sure
they're only getting the basics. Like we go above and beyond.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
And beyond, so they're like your children.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Yeah, Like we we brush them, we bade them, we
we put them, we put them in costumes. But it's like,
am I going to go out and get a lion
and then put the lion inside of like my house
and leave it inside of a room? No, because that's
not their natural environment. And like if I were to
(14:51):
be that type of person, that's wrong in my opinion.
But yeah, no I am, and the way that I
in the way that I am with my animals, it's okay.
It's because they have more love and more things than
they know what to do with, Like when they let
you know when they're unhappy or they want to play,
(15:13):
and we acknowledge that, and they're very calm, they're very loving.
They don't there's zero aggression. There's the only aggrussion is
the blind one. She doesn't get her away, No, she
doesn't get away. Or if like we have a Bugsy
who's one of her fellow cats. He is a little
(15:37):
spastic sometimes and he likes to go and tease her
and she gets a little crazy from that. But other
than that, they all get along. They're all calm, and like,
you're not going to be sitting there and all of
a sudden one of our animals bite you, because like
we give them so much love and comfort like there's
zero signs of aggression.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
You know, I always again, I've looked at vegans and
been like, you know, another vegan, And then if I
ever see a vegan with an animal, a dog like
on a leash or something, I get even more bothered.
But my mentality started. It bothers me because I feel
like the way it looks when I see someone have
(16:16):
a dog on a leash, even myself, I see something
as slave and master because we have the power. We
feed them, we are the hand that you know. We
scold them, we teach them, we love them. It's on
our call, on our choice. Right, So I understand that
I've accepted that they are domesticated. They've been bred as domesticated.
At this point, they cannot survive in the wild. Even
(16:38):
if they're born in the wild, they can hardly because
it's just it's been pulled out of their DNA. It's
been brought in to be calm, chill, happy, wag the
tail type of animals. Right. But when I obviously you
and I are close. So when I started observing your life,
I started questioning myself on why does that bother me?
(16:59):
I see how atom is he's a vegan. He really
loves his animals. He'll know do whatever for it is
it bad. He has, his animals are rescues, he's carried.
So it kind of makes me change my mind on judging.
And I see you as someone who it does it.
It's not necessarily I think that you. For instance, maybe
(17:21):
I'm jumping the gun. If it were like a cow
being raised naturally, huge open fields, loving nurturing, but its
sole purpose was to provide food, taking that cow from
its meat to its skin, to use every part of
it like the Native Americans used to do. They worshiped
their animals before they killed them because they used every
(17:43):
single piece of it as opposed to a slaughterhouse. I
feel like you'd be okay with that, right, that mentality,
because we have survival you.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Mean the Indian lifestyle or going.
Speaker 2 (17:53):
To speak or farm life, farm life.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yes, I'm okay with that because I also understand and
it's like every animal has its purpose on a firm
and when you're not providing that purpose, then unfortunately, you
know you've got to make room for another animal that
will right, And I understand the circle of life in
that aspect, but I am also it's like I'm also
going to treat the animal with respect and give the
(18:20):
animal the needs that it actually needs, not to fit
my lifestyle. So since I'm vegan, it's like, so I'm
a vegan. It's not like I'm going to force my
cat to be vegan.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Okay, So that's important to hear.
Speaker 3 (18:34):
So I want them so for animals, any type of
an animal, I want them to live as happy of
a life as possible. Thereat and they're as close to
natural habitat as possible.
Speaker 2 (18:45):
That's what they're supposed to they. Of course, the cat's
feelines need meat, right, they have to have it. I mean,
there's a reason they have teeth like that.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Well, because I hear I've heard stories about like parents
who are vegan who try to force it on their
newborn kids.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
I see that and it's horrible. I as a mom,
I was reading so much about that that kids have
died from dehydration and whatnot because of aolnutrition. The brain
doesn't function properly. I'm not a huge meat eater anymore
because of my love for animals, I still eat it.
But with Eli, I know he needs a lot of
(19:21):
protein right now, you know, to create the certain chemicals
for his brain, body whatnot. So yeah, I think the
natural way of it is fine. And I love that
you've already sort of incorporated that by everything in your home.
Your garden is literally like farm to table with you,
(19:41):
literally from to table, and you did so well with it,
and you started creating so many amazing recipes, and you
created your own show, Farming with Fire Hunts. And this
show has become really successful because everyone I'm seeing the comments,
just like everyone wants tips from you. Everyone's like, oh
my god, I did this, what did you do? It's
just so cool. At first, I was like, oh my god,
(20:03):
Autumn's literally taking the camera into his backyard and finally
showing people what he does. How are people going to
take to this? Oh my god?
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Yeah, because when we love it when we.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Were on the Fucking Martha Steward of the Gay Community
in Your.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
London, because like when we were on Bravo, it's like,
nobody really saw that aspect of my life. Yeah, because
it was.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
All about's husband's husbands.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, so nobody really understood like why I was quiet
or like off to the side is because I'm more Yeah,
I'm more like uh east La, like more Los Fila's
Silver Lake, like I'm just very zen and I just
like I want to live off the land, like I
don't want to Like for me, it's it's also about
(20:49):
saving money and being and decreasing my carbon footprint. Yes,
it's like I don't want to be like ten years
from now, like in a worse place than if I
would have been more mindful and careful about what I'm
putting into my body and what I'm doing to the
land that I own. I just want to be as
(21:09):
pro life, meaning pro life meaning like growing from the
land as possible instead of like putting all the chemicals
in there. It's like I don't want there to be
like plastic grown out of my skin.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
And we see we see the science and not how
much unprocessed food we have sitting in our gut. Because
all the hormones and steroids and all that that it
goes into the pesticide, everything that goes into our food,
our body can't break down those chemicals and it turns
into like gunk that get stuck. It can't get broken
down enough. It's hard.
Speaker 3 (21:44):
And when you say that, it's like that makes me
think of like all the whales, like all the whales
that are washing up on shore, and there's like they're
just full of plastic.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
They're full of plastic. It's it's always it's always like
the plastic, yeah, that they're consuming, And I try Here's
what I wanted to sign. It's important for people to
understand that when you see someone who's a vegetarian or
a vegan or plant based or whatnot, that it's impossible
because people immediately want to say, but wait a minute,
(22:15):
you drive that, or wait a minute, is your belt?
So it's what you just said is very important, and
I want to piggyback off of that. It's important to
be as mindful to this earth as possible, you know,
because this earth is giving to us and our whole
lifespan that we have from birth to death, the Earth
is providing us. That is it. We are not given
(22:36):
anything else that the Earth isn't giving us, So why
not give back a little bit. So, yes, maybe someone
you know has to put gas in their car because
that's all that they can afford at that time. They
couldn't and it's a twenty year old car. Maybe maybe
it's not, maybe it's a fucking Ferrari. But they try
to lead another lifestyle that's better. I think it's just
(22:57):
important to be mindful because no one is one hundred
percent perfect.
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Right, And even piggyback on that, like sure, I drive
a luxury car, but at the same time, it's like
I don't drive it everywhere. But then wait, but then
also when you've worked the work that I work in,
and you're putting in like sixteen eighteen hour long days,
I want to drive home comfortably. I don't. I don't
(23:22):
want to be driving home in a clunker.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
Where because you're trying to preserve just.
Speaker 3 (23:27):
I feel the stuff under the cushion and it's uncomfortable,
or I don't have the right ac It's like, sure,
it's not the best solution for the earth, but I'm
also residi also getting ready to go electric, so that
my carbon footprint is going to be decreased even more
as soon as that happens. But even that, it's like
I worked from home, I never drive anywhere.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Yeah, yeah, no, it's it's just that's the thing. It's
important to be mindful of it. And I love what
you're doing with farming with fire Hans. You're teaching people
how to make use, utilize just even the smallest of things.
It's like just just something as simple as growing an eggplant,
for instance, Like I gotta say all the fucking we
gotta use the egg panomogy. Come on, it's a dick,
(24:10):
It's a dick. But yeah, there's just something as simple
as your eggplants and showing what you can do. It's
so simple, and you're showing this simplicity. People are complaining,
they spend so much time on social media, online whatever,
complaining about prices. It's so expensive to buy groceries. You
know what, if you have a little four by four
(24:31):
space in your backyard, you can actually do so much
in a four by four space.
Speaker 3 (24:35):
No, even on the balcony.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
It's like so much on a balcony.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Res and I we used to live in a condo
and it faced we hoo. This is when we loved
in What's Hollywood and it had a very thin strip
of balcony and I had tomatoes growing up the wall.
I had basil, all these herbs.
Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, you could even do it inside your home. I've
seen on Amazon they have very cheap greenhouses. They have
little special lights and they're so cheap. You can just
there are there are ways to do it. I love
the farming with fire hunts is you're doing that. I
love your finally because you're filled. I always tell you this,
You're a jack of all trades. You've always got you
pulling something out of the hat. Always that you're doing
(25:11):
your photography, you're cooking stuff, you're growing stuff. I love
that you're doing that. What is your intention with farming
with firehuns?
Speaker 3 (25:21):
Res and I because I've incorporated Reza into farming with
the fire Haunts, since he is you're.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
The fire haunts, you go to the Firehns.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Our goal is to show people a different part of
our lives and how to be more sufficient and live
off what you already have and staid of having to
go to the store and rely on like corporations to
give you your basic needs. Like I of number one,
I don't care to drive, regardless of the carbon footprint.
(25:52):
I don't care to drive. That's why Resil.
Speaker 2 (25:55):
He hates to drive unless it's his Porsche.
Speaker 3 (25:59):
Audios to that car.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
I know he was so sad she has gone.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
But with them so it's just like living a happier,
more simple life, and we want to share that with
all the fans and viewers. That we have and who knows,
even like, get other people interested in what we do
and hopefully we'll be able to take it to a
bigger platform. But as of right now, we're just on
(26:24):
social media, and right.
Speaker 2 (26:26):
Now social media is the only place to be for
any that's that's where things happen is on social media.
So if you're on social media with the following that
you guys have both accumulated from shaws and whatnot, I
think it's doing great. I love it well.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Besides even just a farming aspect, like another, the thing
that really started farming with the far hauns was my
love of flowers and butterflies. And yeah, and so like
you know that I raised monarch butterflies. So I have
flower beds just dedicated to their host plant, which is milkweed,
(27:01):
and so like the more milk weed I have, the better,
and that means the more butterflies I can raise, And yeah,
just go from there. And that's how actually farming with
the fire hunts started.
Speaker 2 (27:14):
Yeah, with the butterflies.
Speaker 3 (27:16):
Yeah, with the butterflies.
Speaker 2 (27:17):
I remember that. Listen with that, I want to actually
tell you guys a really cute butterfly story. But we're
going to take a quick break and we will be
back with Adam to tell more about vegan lifestyle, farming
with fire hunts, and a special butterfly story.
Speaker 1 (27:33):
We're going to take a quick break, but when we
come back.
Speaker 2 (27:37):
This time, I happened to be there to hang out
with your husband and you were like, oh, Gigi, do
you want to see their release? I'm like, dull, I
love it because every time I go over there, which
was like almost once a week or something, I watched
the caterpillar and the larva grow bigger and you see
it attached, and you know, Adam marks me through the process.
(27:59):
So butterfly story, this is what I wanted to tell people.
So I'm going to talk a little shit. Adam and
I love to talk about animals, but every now and
then we take a little dip at Shade. No, but
it's fine because we love her, so we could say this.
So the last time I was at Adam's house for
the release of his monarchs, he literally gets them as
(28:21):
the caterpillars was called the caterpillar.
Speaker 3 (28:23):
To be clear. To be clear, you weren't over there
for the release.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
I wasn't there for that. I just happened to be
there for it.
Speaker 3 (28:30):
So when we throw the shade, it's not.
Speaker 2 (28:32):
I'm gonna throw. I was there for that. I got
invitesh So I had been invited other times for the releases.
This time I happened to be there to hang out
with your husband, and you were like, oh, Gigi, do
you want to see their release? I'm like, dull. I
love it because every time I go over there, which
was like almost once a week or something, I watched
(28:53):
the caterpillar and the larva grow bigger and you see
it attached, and you know, Adam walks me through the process. Anyway,
last time I was there for the release, we posted it.
I posted every time, and you know he reposted, and
I think your husband reposted in MJ. MJ got mad
and and major jealousy, like what did she say? Like?
Speaker 3 (29:16):
How come I wasn't invited for the release?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
The release was a butterfly.
Speaker 3 (29:20):
I think this was before she and I had really
spoken conversation. Yeah, so this was before then. It's and then,
and then somewhere within that conversation came up, how come
Adams hanging out with Gig?
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Oh God, thanks, Oh God, bitch, we love you, MJ.
That's why we get to talk shit about yours. We'd
be saying this off camera behind your back. No kid,
No I'm not. But it was hilarious. I love watching
evolution happen. I love watching the process, and it's made
me have a bigger appreciation for life in general.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
Because you've also have seen me go out there find
the eggs harvest.
Speaker 2 (30:00):
Yeah, it's a process to.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
Catch them, feed them.
Speaker 2 (30:03):
You literally nurture from ground zero. It's like a Giassic
type situation where you like found the mosquitos and everything
made the dinos.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Yeah, it's like literally from egg to butterfly release.
Speaker 2 (30:14):
And you do that with everything. You do that with
your growing of fruits and vegetables because you compost, and
a lot of people don't know what it means to compost.
Speaker 3 (30:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (30:27):
You basically take all the leftovers.
Speaker 3 (30:30):
Table scraps minus any animal products except for shellfish and eggshells,
and you do it. You put them all in special
into this large container that sits on top of the ground,
and then you mix it with like all your table scraps,
you know, cardboard, leaves, water, dirt, and.
Speaker 2 (30:53):
Any organic natural element or organic.
Speaker 3 (30:55):
Earth wise minus like chicken meat and red meat, any
other type of meat is okay?
Speaker 2 (31:04):
And how long does it sit in the compost?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
I'm constantly string so it'll be at least like three
to six months until you get usable composts.
Speaker 2 (31:13):
What the fact if people need to compost for.
Speaker 3 (31:16):
Because it's just full of nutrients, Like this is.
Speaker 2 (31:19):
Like, what do you do with it? What do you
mean it's total of nutrients? You go and make a
cup of gel and just you know, drinking, what do
you do with For people who have no idea what
compost is?
Speaker 3 (31:27):
Well? With my compost, I use it to fertilize. You
use it to add carbon and nitrogen and all your
basic soil goodness back into the soil.
Speaker 2 (31:39):
Let me tell you guys, the fruits and vegetables tastes different.
It is the best tasting, sweetest, or the onions are
just onion. It's your watermelons, your everything, you have, everything
just abundantly delicious.
Speaker 3 (31:54):
Yeah, because it's because I'm not I tend to use
this as fertilizer versus like the stuff you get the store,
because I don't know what's in that stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
Yeah you don't.
Speaker 3 (32:05):
I know what I'm putting into my compost, so I
know that it's like all good stuff. It's like not
anything that has been like you know, recalled from like
the FDA or anything. It's just been It's all natural stuff.
So I use the compost to you know, mix in
with the soil to re energize it. I and also
(32:26):
to collect worms because worms are beneficial for your plants.
And then I also have a compost teamaker, which is
you've seen me go around with a jug of dirty
looking water and watering everything.
Speaker 2 (32:41):
Oh yeah, so you say, tea, I thought you were
telling me walking around serving you see on my way, bitch, No,
I do, yes, yes, And I saw what I thought
was the coolest thing ever, which you just posted one
of your one of your episodes of farming with fire
Haunts is sunscreen for your plants. We have gone through
(33:02):
a major heat wave, you guys in La which many
places around the world experience this type of heat naturally,
but it kills plants and certain plants can't survive. What
did you make sunscreen out of? To put he was
literally screening his plants.
Speaker 3 (33:16):
There's this company that we buy a lot of our
products from our plants from Ivy Organics. Uh, look them
up online, you know, through social media Instagram. They have
the most interesting products that we love to use. They
have fertilizers all natural, all natural, And what's good about
this is it really helps with your baby trees. It
(33:40):
helps protect against pest sun because like during these heat waves,
like I have forgotten, it's like sure, I was, you know,
watering them, but we're also on a watering Yeah, we're
in a drought. This helps them, you know, stay healthy
and save the money that you'd be spending on water.
Speaker 2 (34:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
And even though you still need to water them, like,
this helps protect them so that you are able to
have like a better crop next year, even during that
season if you haven't already gotten your crop. So so,
sunscreen for your plants is very beneficial, not only for
your own harvest, but also for your own yard. Nobody
(34:24):
wants to look at a yard with the dead tree.
Speaker 2 (34:25):
No, nobody does. So if you're going to spend all
that time and money to even begin gardening and landscaping
in general, it's very expensive. People don't realize how expensive
it is. It's not just a dirt that came out
of the ground. You have to have specific nutrient packed fertilizer,
and it's hard to even maintain your fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (34:44):
Sometimes you've seen my front yard, you guys whipped out
the whole thing, just many times toxic fertilizer. Well, the soil,
the quality of our soil is very sandy, and so
I constantly have add nutrients back into it, things that
would retain the moisture. And it's like, after a while
(35:06):
just becomes so time consuming and like your back hurts,
your neck hurts, and your wallet hurts, and you're just like,
oh my god, I would just want to stop.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
My parents where they live in Palasfertes, that soil in
Palasferties is extremely rich and anything grows so easily. My
mom still does special stuff that she makes is but
things just grow so fast. It's amazing. I love it. It's
interesting to watch and learn you your techniques, and because
(35:34):
it's so simple that anyone can really pick up on
these techniques. If you guys are out there and you're
into living this lifestyle more healthier, you want to learn
more about it. I swear to you. Check out farming
with fire Hans. It is so simple and so easy
and fun. He makes it, you make it very fun.
You guys are really cute together. You guys are funny
(35:56):
and silly. Resa is a goof when it comes to
not even knowing what you're doing half the time.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
Well because people see a different side of him, different
side because like he's more low key and he's more very.
Speaker 2 (36:06):
You're the dom. You're the dom for sure. And farming
with Phara Hans and he looks like a little goofball.
It just you know, it's just learning. He's here for
the ride, but he's into plans to do anyways. Watch
farming with fire Hans. It's very cool. I would hope
that everyone can sort of try to make an effort
to just you know, be a little bit more conscious
of the world that we live in. If you have
(36:28):
to drive a little less, drive a little less, you
can carpool, you could do whatever. Eat a little healthier,
don't support these big mass produce farms that are slaughtering
in a very bad way. Try to do it is.
I know it's a little more expensive, and you're probably saying, oh,
she doesn't fucking understand it's more expensive. It is. It's
(36:50):
probably a buck or two more.
Speaker 3 (36:52):
You know, it's growing no to.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
To to just buy to buy a little healthier, you know,
from not those mass produced. If you're gonna eat meat,
get something that's font from the farm. It's like grass
free gray, you know what I mean exactly.
Speaker 3 (37:06):
It's like also when you buy stuff from the store,
you don't know what exactly what's going into You don't
know what's going on. It's like when you taste like
a cucumber homegrown versus a cucumber from the store. Homegrown
tastes like a real cue.
Speaker 2 (37:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (37:19):
And that's what I love about growing is because I
like to start my herbs and veggies from a seed.
Most of my stuff has grown from seed, and it's
just amazing to see it go from that seed into
like this mess.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
It's amazing and it's so delicious when you eat it
because you just have a different feeling about it. And
you guys, don't need a huge backyard, like you said,
whether you have a little patio balcony. You can even
get a little bit inside you're on top of your
kitchen table, whatever you want. Atom will teach you the way.
Watch farming with four hunts. Adam, thank you so much
for being here and teaching us a little bit about
plant based or vegan I'm still never gonna understand all
(37:56):
this stuff. Thank you for being here and teaching us.
Speaker 1 (38:00):
Thanks for listening to genuinely Gigi. Download new episodes every week,
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