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BEEF with Bridget Todd

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  • Summary

  • BEEF is an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast where Business Wars meets pop culture history. Award-winning host Bridget Todd tells the stories of legends in their fields and how they tried to stomp out their competition only to find that their enemies become the driving force behind their success, ultimately changing the world as we know it.
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Episodes
  • Bonus Episode - Rod Phillips (Full Interview)
    Jun 5 2024
    In our latest piece of bonus content, writer Max Wolfson talks with wine writer Rod Phillips about the history of alcohol, the moralizing that surrounds it and the customs that celebrate our need for inebriation. Rod Phillips is a wine writer, wine historian, and wine judge based in Ottawa, Canada. He's also a professor of history at Carleton University where he teaches courses on European (especially French) history and the history of alcohol and food. Additionally, he's written several books on the subject, incuding Alcohol: A History, 9000 Years of Wine, and Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed our Lives and is an occasional contributer to The World of Fine Wine (U.K.) and GuildSomm.com, the Guild of Sommeliers’ web site in the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 mins
  • Episode 8 - Beer vs. Gin: The Battle of Great Britain's Favorite Beverages
    May 29 2024
    This week on Beef, brewers and booze-hounds of every social strata go head to head in 18th century Great Britain over what’s better: beer or gin. Pick up a copy of Stuart Walton's book "Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication" Learn more about Rod Phillips' wine writing on his website! Hosted by Bridget Todd Written by Max Wolfson The actors who voiced Sor Juana’s words are Luisa Sofia and Franco Machado-Pesce Showrunning, Editing & Sound Design by Pete Musto Produced by James "Sam" Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle Find out more about all of Next Chapter Podcasts' incredible content at nextchapterpodcasts.com! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    39 mins
  • Bonus Episode - Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto (Full Interview)
    May 22 2024
    In our latest piece of bonus content, showrunner Pete Musto talks with Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto about the spirit of adventure, the human cost of exploration and the mythmaking that happens around people who seek the forbidden and the unknown. Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a professor of Ancient, Early Modern, Medieval, and Modern History at the University of Notre-Dame. Professor Fernández-Armesto earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and has also taught at Tufts University and the University of London. He is author of dozens of books on history, “Oxford History of the World” several focusing specifically on famous explorers, including “Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan,” “Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America,” and “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration,” for which he won the 2007 World History Association Book Prize. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    47 mins

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