QuickBites

QuickBites

There's fun in learning at random. Host Pauline Altman and her guests do the research so you don't have to.

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September 25, 2025 93 mins

Equine scientist and horse owner Kiowa breaks down the current levels of the US horse industry, and the effects the economy has on them.

3:50 Topic Start 

29:20 Appalachian Legacy Initiative

1:12:00 The Mustang Problem

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Cosmetologist Alti stopped by to share how communication and community are essential to increasing accessibility and diversity in the field of cosmetology.

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December 19, 2024 36 mins

BJD faceup artist Lav shares the basics of the ball-jointed doll crafting (and collecting adjacent) community.

See Lav's art here.

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August 24, 2023 10 mins

Pauline looks into the origins of the Michelin Guide.

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August 1, 2023 17 mins

Pauline explores the continuing evolution of FEMA.

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July 6, 2023 15 mins

Pauline describes the Company Town structure and gives examples of the good, the bad, and the massacre.

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June 21, 2023 18 mins

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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June 1, 2023 21 mins

Pauline explains the rise and scandalous collapse of Enron Corporation.

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February 8, 2023 17 mins

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

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

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April 21, 2022 26 mins

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

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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

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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.

Find Art at His website and on YouTube and on Twitter 

0:00 Art's Intro,

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

6:12 An Intro to Reading Classic Literature

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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

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February 24, 2022 15 mins

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

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February 10, 2022 18 mins

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

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February 3, 2022 16 mins

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

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:05 Star Trek Discovery,

1:15 The Winter Olympics Begins,

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1:50 The Halifax Explosion

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January 27, 2022 11 mins

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

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:06 Peacemaker on HBOMax,

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1:00 The New Deal

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January 20, 2022 14 mins

Pauline breaks down the traits and origins of Humanistic Psychology.

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:05 Yellowjackets S1,

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1:13 Humanistic Psychology

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January 13, 2022 16 mins

Pauline covers the 1920s Teapot Dome Scandal.

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