QuickBites

Pauline breaks down the rhetoric used in Stochastic Terrorism, the characteristics of those most at risk of being influenced by its messaging, and how to spot shifts in The Overton Window.

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Pauline explains the rise and scandalous collapse of Enron Corporation.

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Pauline makes the case for opening more Safe Injection Sites to help address the opioid crisis.

Pauline covers how businesses used middle-men to suppress their workers in the late 19th/early 20th century.

Pauline shares the steps coffee goes through from harvest to brew (including processing styles), then covers the four waves of the coffee industry. Find 'The Marvelous Madames' Podcast at https://linktr.ee/themarvelousmadames

:30 The Coffee Production Process,

13:44 Promo: The Marvelous Madames Podcast,

14:30 The Four Waves of Coffee

Pauline covers the German term 'Lebensraum', its part in the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, and part of that invasion - The Siege of Leningrad.

0:05 Best Anythings (Ted Lasso, Legends of Tomorrow rewatch),

1:52 Lebensraum,

6:31 The Siege of Leningrad

Pauline is joined by Art from The Bookshelf Odyssey Podcast, who shares some ways to get into reading classic literature, and gives some recommendations of diverse authors and stories.

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0:00 Art's Intro,

3:14 Best Anythings (Picard, A Flicker In The Dark),

6:12 An Intro to Reading Classic Literature

Pauline compares the basis of Marxist theory to the origin of the Cultural Marxism conspiracy theory.

0:05 Best Anythings (Killing Eve is back, The Endgame, Learning to play chess),

2:22 Marxism vs. Cultural Marxism

Pauline covers how Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' fight for the working class led to writing the Communist Manifesto.

0:05 Best Anythings (Single Drunk Female, Abbott Elementary),

1:22 The Communist Manifesto

Pauline shares the evidence of Plant Intelligence including communication, learning/memory, and problem solving.

05: Best Anythings (The Eyes of Tammy Faye, We Need to Talk About Bill Cosby, JFK Revisited:Through the Looking Glass),

2:36 Plant Intelligence

Pauline shares the cause and destruction of the 1917 Halifax Explosion.

Best Anythings;

:05 Star Trek Discovery,

1:15 The Winter Olympics Begins,

Topic;

1:50 The Halifax Explosion

Pauline covers the burst of new agencies and policies created during Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency to aid in recovery from the Great Depression.

Best Anythings;

:06 Peacemaker on HBOMax,

Topic;

1:00 The New Deal

Pauline breaks down the traits and origins of Humanistic Psychology.

Best Anythings;

:05 Yellowjackets S1,

Topic;

1:13 Humanistic Psychology

Pauline covers the 1920s Teapot Dome Scandal.