Biting All The Apples
Biting All The Apples is the podcast that holds the power of one million aunties, the ancestral spirit of all the librarians, historians, suffragettes, and lady rodeo trick riders that came before us.
Hosted by JV & SK, two women surreptitiously recording from rural, red America - they're the gals that'll serve you a book in hard times, but that's because they know we've all been raised on the wrong books. This podcast is here to make up for lost time.
Each season takes on influential works from the past to ask what they got right, what they missed (and these lady writers didn't miss much), and why it still matters now.
For anyone interested in fun, sizzling takes on deeply serious books that happen to be treasure maps and escape plans for these difficult times.
Recent Episodes
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June 22, 2026
A Stormy Weather Introduction to Our Next Read: Heather Marsh's Binding Chaos
We recorded this episode with a storm radar glowing beside us, true summertime style! Join us as we joke our way through Michigan good-weather guilt and then pivot into a serious as in seriously thought-provoking new book that questions the political truths we’re taught to accept. Heather Marsh’s Binding Chaos: Mass Collaboration on a Global Scale, pushes us to ask why representative democracy so often turns into oligarchy and what technology changes about power, voice, and responsibili...
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June 15, 2026
Undeceive Yourselves! Respell The World: The Great Cosmic Mother pt5
"Imagination is a memory moving both forward and backward in time." - Barbara Mor, The Great Cosmic Mother Now just imagine that both yesterday and tomorrow have the full show notes and not the autogenerated ones and you just so happened to visit on this day. We're joking of course - the autogenerated notes are temporary - new ones will be updated soon. All the contact info is correct! --------Autogen summary The world can feel like it’s sliding into something colder and meaner, ...
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May 25, 2026
Special Episode: Mother's Day, Memorial Day, and The God of War - A history and reading mash-up
Mother’s Day and Memorial Day show up like clockwork, but the stories we tell about them are missing the peaceful roots. We go back to the nineteenth century to recover what got sanded down: Julia Ward Howe’s Mother’s Day Proclamation is not soft-focus nostalgia, it’s a direct anti-war demand for women to refuse a world that sends husbands home “reeking with carnage” and trains sons to injure other people’s sons. From there, we follow the on-the-ground organizing that made “Mother’s Day” real be
May 11, 2026
Welcome To The Machine, Please (un)Repress Yourself: The Great Cosmic Mother pt 4
America loves the word “freedom,” so why do so many of us feel spiritually starved, politically cornered, and weirdly isolated from our own bodies? We pull a thread from The Great Cosmic Mother and it turns into a whole tapestry: patriarchal religion doesn’t just shape private belief, it builds the rules of the modern world. When the sacred gets split from the lived, you end up with what the book calls the American split, a culture that can offer abundance and ideology but not wholeness, ecstasy
April 27, 2026
Sky Daddy: The Biggest Buzzkill of 'em All: The Great Cosmic Mother Pt 3
We’re deep in The Great Cosmic Mother , landing in the final section on “Patriarchal Culture and Religion” where the dots connect fast: the split from Earth to sky, the invention of a distant father God, and the long campaign to make the body feel dirty, dangerous, and controllable. Something that affects each and every one of us, whether we attend church or not. We talk through how The GCM tells us that patriarchy rewrote spiritual reality by ripping women out of the life giving narrative, turn
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April 13, 2026
The Don't Want Us To Remember This Stuff: The Great Cosmic Mother Pt. 2
Wonder how you got trapped in the machine? We've got all the answers for you. Using our book of the moment, The Great Cosmic Mother, we break down how ancient goddess-centered cultures that were so real and connected through birth, death, creativity, ecstacy, and the earth - got totally crushed and rewritten with a patriarchal influenced monotheistic jealous god. The change coincided with a rise in conquering, violence, and a focus on production - a desire to change humans into worker b...
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