32 episodes

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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    • Society & Culture

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.

    Sir Richard Burton vs. Captain John Hanning Speke: Frenemy Explorers of the Nile

    Sir Richard Burton vs. Captain John Hanning Speke: Frenemy Explorers of the Nile

    This week on Beef, fearless explorers Sir Richard Burton and Captain John Hanning Speke face unimaginable dangers, and their own divisiveness, while searching for the source of the Nile River.

    Check out Felipe Fernández-Armesto's latest book The Oxford History of the World.

    Learn more about Robin Hanbury-Tenison's adventures in South America!

    Hosted by Bridget Todd
    Writing, Editing & Sound Design by Showrunner Pete Musto
    Produced by James Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo
    Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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    • 48 min
    J. Randy Taraborrelli (Full Interview)

    J. Randy Taraborrelli (Full Interview)

    In our latest piece of bonus content, host Bridget Todd talks with journalist and author J. Randy Taraborrelli about the complexities of the Bouvier family, the weight of international fame, and what our fascination with celebrities says about our culture.

    J. Randy Taraborrelli is a frequent contributing entertainment reporter for Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. And he’s written multiple New York Times best-selling biographies of some of the world's biggest celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Madonna and Diana Ross, and several covering the lives of the Bouviers and Kennedys, including his most recent book "Jackie - Public, Private, Secret.”
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    • 43 min
    First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis vs. Princess Lee Raziwill: Duel of the Debutante Sisters

    First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis vs. Princess Lee Raziwill: Duel of the Debutante Sisters

    This week on Beef, Former First-Lady Jackie Kennedy and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill play tug-of-war with the public’s affection and adoration.

    Grab a copy of J. Randy Taraborrelli's latest book about the Bouviers - Jackie: Public, Private, Secret.

    Hosted by Bridget Todd
    Writing, Editing & Sound Design by Showrunner Pete Musto
    Produced by James Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo
    Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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    • 39 min
    Bonus Episode - Dr. Stephanie Kirk (Full Interview)

    Bonus Episode - Dr. Stephanie Kirk (Full Interview)

    In our latest piece of bonus content, writer Adrián Duston-Muñoz talks with professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Stephanie Kirk about Mexico's Baroque period, the gender politics of knowledge during that time, and the connections between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and modern day feminism.

    Dr. Stephanie Kirk is the Director of the Center for the Humanities and a Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of two books: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (Routledge, 2016) and Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities (Florida UP, 2007). She has also published numerous articles and essays on gender and religious culture in colonial Mexico, and on the life and work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. She has edited two collected volumes: Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (Penn Press, 2014) and Estudios coloniales en el siglo XXI: Nuevos itinerarios (IILI, 2011). She is currently preparing a translation and critical edition of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s convent chronicle Paraíso occidental. Stephanie Kirk is the editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.
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    • 43 min
    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist

    Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz vs. The Catholic Church: Mexico's First Feminist

    This week on Beef, the brilliant 17th century nun Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz dares to defy the Catholic Church with her scholarship and searing wit.

    Pick up Dr. Stephanie Kirk's fascinating book Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico.

    Hosted by Bridget Todd
    Written by Adrián Duston-Muñoz
    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

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    • 32 min
    Bonus Episode - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Full Interview)

    Bonus Episode - Jennifer Keishin Armstrong (Full Interview)

    In our latest piece of bonus content, showrunner Pete Musto chats with pop culture historian Jennifer Keishin Armstrong about TV history, diverse representation in media, and how Sex and the City paved the way for countless other hit shows like HBO's Girls and Comedy Central's Broad City.

    Jennifer Keishin Armstrong is a former entertainment journalist and a New York Times bestselling author of several incredibly enlightening books on television history, including “Seinfeldia: How A Show About Nothing Changed Everything,” “Mary and Lou and Rhoda and Ted and All the Brilliant Minds who made The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” And her book “Sex and The City and US: How Four Single Women Changed the Way We Think, Live, and Love” details how the HBO series revolutionized TV for women. Grab a copy of her latest book "So Fetch: The Making of Mean Girls (And Why We're Still So Obsessed with It."
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    • 47 min

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