Our 31st podcast features the cartooning mastermind behind the daily comic Bizarro, Dan Piraro, who was recently in Philadelphia for the Veggie Cabaret. Vance and Dan discuss cartooning and vegetarianism, and how difficult it can be to derive humor from a grim, depressing situation. Jim Harris, who helmed the pit band for the Veggie Cabaret, sings a song with his band Saint Mad, and there is a Science Fact about the power of a plant based diet to ward off prostate cancer.