He's a bad actor, but the degree to which the content of what he's saying is believable but still extreme is really on point.

PETA et al. suck, but occasionally they pull off a good one on some genuinely shitty people.

She should have been way more suspicious at 3 minutes in, and yet somehow she's still thinking, or at least hoping this is legit. There's no way a dude like that would say "We're the source of the next pandemic". Holy shit, lady. Get a clue.