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The official podcast of theeasymode.com, home of your favorite video game, movie, and music news and reviews. Join our rotating cast of Mark, Russ, Tyler, Giang and Steve as they talk about games they've played over the past week, their favorite theeasymode.com posts, answer readers' questions, and more. We're 95% console gamers. Recommended for fans of the Joystiq, 1up, Destructoid, IGN.com, Kotaku, X3F, Host Migration, X-Play, Game Informer, Rebel FM, Gamepro Conversation, Freelancers, Gia ...
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HERO AND ME is the podcast that celebrates exceptionalism, not as a thing that distinguishes notable figures of the past from our own times, but as an ideal that links us together and inspires us to be the very best that we can be.
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Connecticut is a small state with big stories. GTN episodes include top-flight historians, compelling first-person stories and new voices in Connecticut history. Executive Producers Mary Donohue, Walt Woodward, and Natalie Belanger look at the people and places that have made a difference in CT history. New episodes every two weeks. A joint production of Connecticut Explored magazine and the CT State Historian Emeritus.
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FALL IN The Problem Gambling Podcast for Military Service Members and Veterans podcast
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Dave Yeager is a U.S. Army Veteran and in recovery for a gambling addiction. Through Dave's own story and the stories of Active Duty Military Members and Veterans we hope to create a safe space to listen and learn about gambling addiction in the military. This podcast is produced in association with All In: The Addicted Gambler's Podcast.
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202. Miss Crandall’s School for Black Women
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56:17After a campaign initiated by schoolchildren, Prudence Crandall was designated the Connecticut State Heroine by the Connecticut General Assembly on Oct. 1, 1995. You may not know Connecticut has a state heroine, or you might have some inkling that Crandall was maybe a spinster Quaker schoolmarm, who had an unsuccessful school in the hinterlands of …
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201. The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir with Griffin Dunne
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58:24In this episode, Host Mary Donohue talks to Griffin Dunne, actor, producer and director and now New York Times best-selling author about his family memoir The Friday Afternoon Club. His Hartford to Hollywood family includes generations of writers, movie producers, journalists, and actors including his father Dominick Dunne, uncle John Gregory Dunne…
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Ep. 4: $5.1M Sales Contract Organic Playbook Pt.1
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36:35Episode 4: $5.1M Sales Contract Organic Playbook Pt.1 Title: Building Effective Systems and Accountability Description: In this episode of the Scale to Sale Podcast, Mark Crandall pulls back the curtain on the organic strategies and operational systems that led to securing a $5.1M sales contract. This is Part 1 of a two-part series where Mark share…
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Ep. 3: Buying & Selling Businesses w/ Blueline Ventures Group
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35:04Episode Summary: Welcome back to the Scale to Sale Podcast for part two of our special series with Joe Wechsler from Blue Line Ventures. In this episode, we’re shifting gears from the emotional side of selling a business to the strategic world of acquisitions and investing. Mark and Joe dive into how Blue Line Ventures operates its fund and what th…
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200. Erector Sets, Trains and New Haven’s Toymaker A.C. Gilbert
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35:58We did it!! This is our 200th episode of Grating the Nutmeg! Thanks to our listeners, we have travelled across the state during every time period to bring you vivid, fascinating stories from our state’s history. Become a podcast subscriber to get notified every time there’s a new episode! During this holiday season, it seemed like the perfect time …
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Ep. 2: How I got to a $5.1M Sales Contract w/ Blueline Ventures
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19:06Episode Summary: In this special two-part episode, your host Mark Crandall is joined by Joe Wechsler from Blueline Ventures, and today, we’re diving deep into the emotional rollercoaster of selling a business. If you’ve ever wondered what it’s really like to sell your company—what goes on behind the scenes, the emotional ups and downs, the tension …
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Ep. 1: Escaping the Rabbit Hole & a $5.1M Sale Contract
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30:06Welcome to the Scale to Sale Podcast—your VIP pass to scaling your business to the next level! Your host, Mark Crandall, takes you through his exhilarating journey of scaling, selling, and stepping out of the day-to-day grind. From managing multiple trades companies to securing a jaw-dropping $5.1M sale contract, Mark shares the highs, lows, and le…
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199. G. Fox and Company Department Store and the Holidays
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45:13In the mid-20th century, Hartford's G. Fox and Co. was one of the most successful family-owned department stores in the United States. Today, many Connecticans have fond memories of visiting G. Fox at the holiday season -- marvelling at the Christmas Village atop the marquee and meeting Santa in Toyland. In this episode, Natalie Belanger and Jen Bu…
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198. Entwined: Black and Indigenous Maritime History
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43:23We all know a little about New England and Connecticut’s European maritime history. Dutch traders came to North America to trade for beaver pelts and English colonists came to start new communities such as Hartford. But a new exhibition at the Mystic Seaport Museum doesn’t rehash this history - it looks to reveal African and Indigenous perspectives…
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197. Mark Twain and the American Presidents
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43:56Early voting has already started in the 2024 presidential election and I just couldn’t resist the suggestion by my guests to explore what Samuel Clemens alias Mark Twain, Hartford’s greatest Gilded Age humorist, had to say about the United States presidents. Was Twain the John Stewart or John Oliver of his day? Known for his sharp wit and scathing …
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196. Connecticut Body Snatchers: Merchandising the Dead in the 19th Century
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43:00Have you got your Halloween costume ready? Been on any graveyard tours this month? Well, this story for you! I’d never thought of body snatching as having anything to do with Connecticut but as this episode proves, the disappearance of a young women’s body lead to a New Haven riot. I’ll get the details from Richard Ross author of the new book Ameri…
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195. George Griffin: Revealing the Life and Likeness of Mark Twain’s Butler
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47:20Most people know something about Mark Twain, the pen name of Samuel Clemens. After all, he wrote his most famous books while living in Hartford, Connecticut. His 25-room house on Farmington Avenue cost over $40,000 in 1874 dollars. Raised as a child in Missouri, he became world famous for his wit and humor both in print and on stage. But what if th…
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194. Revolutionary War Hero Lafayette Makes a Triumphal Return Tour
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37:22In this episode, you'll hear about the remarkable life and legacy of the man that Lin-Manuel Miranda called "America's favorite fighting Frenchman," the Marquis de Lafayette. This month marks the 200th anniversary of Lafayette's visit to Connecticut, part of his so-called "Farewell Tour" of America in 1824. Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museu…
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Author Steve Thornton asks “Who really makes history”? In his new book, Radical Connecticut: People’s History in the Constitution State, co-authored by Andy Piascik, guest Steve Thornton tells the stories of everyday people and well-known figures whose work has often been obscured, denigrated, or dismissed. There are narratives of movements, strike…
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192. More than Dinosaurs: The New Peabody Museum of Natural History
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33:30Have you ever discovered that one of your favorite places is being renovated? Like your grandmother’s kitchen, your favorite restaurant, or even a museum, and you worry that the charm or the appeal of the place might be gone after the renovation? Podcast editor Patrick O’Sullivan and Producer Mary Donohue went to just such a place, the Peabody Muse…
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This year marks the 80th anniversary of the Hartford Circus Fire. In this episode of Grating the Nutmeg, Natalie Belanger of the Connecticut Museum of Culture and History tells the story of the deadliest man-made disaster in Connecticut history. On July 6, 1944, the Big Top of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus caught fire during a …
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190. Phyllis Zlotnick, Disability Rights Activist
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46:26July 1990 marked the passing of a landmark piece of federal legislation, the Americans with Disabilities Act, known as the ADA. To recognize this event and to celebrate Disability Pride Month, we are uncovering the legacy of disability rights leader, Phyllis Zlotnick (1942-2011). Zlotnick was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at birth. Beginning in…
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189. Sherlock Holmes and William Gillette's Castle
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42:14We love a Sherlock Holmes "who done it" whether it's Basil Rathbone from the 1940s, Benedict Cumberbacth from the 2000s, or Millie Bobby Brown as Sherlock's sister Enola Holmes from the 2020s. But it was a Hartford-born actor who gave Sherlock Holmes his signature look - his curved pipe, deerstalker cap and magnifying glass. William Gillette was bo…
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188. Revealing Queer Lives: Connecticut’s LGBTQ History
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50:39June is PRIDE month and we’re celebrating by bringing you an episode about efforts to bring LGBTQ+ history to light. As one guest, historian William Mann writes, “Throughout its history, Connecticut’s LGBTQ population has moved from leading hidden, solitary lives to claiming visible, powerful, valuable, and contributing places in society.” In this …
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187. Derby's Charlton Comics: "No Other Place Like It"
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33:12Did you know that comic books were invented in Connecticut? Well, sort of. There are lots of precedents for printing texts with images. But the origin of mass market comic book printing is 1930s Waterbury, where Eastern Color printing began by re-publishing comic strips from newspapers in magazine form. Eventually they partnered with Dell publishin…
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186. New Haven’s Pioneering Grove Street Cemetery
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41:01It’s Spring in Connecticut and this episode is part of our celebration of May as Historic Preservation Month. Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven is the first planned cemetery in the country. The design of Grove Street Cemetery in the 1790s pioneered several of the features that became standard like family plots and an established walkway grid. It i…
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185. Connecticut Industries Unite for WWII Victory: Pratt, Read & Co Gliders
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39:40In this episode, we uncover a Connecticut World War II story that features airplanes without engines. Sound crazy? You’ll learn how these engineless gliders helped beat the Nazis. Executive Producer Mary Donohue will also talk to the author of a new book that details the role that over 45 Connecticut companies played in producing the ammunition, we…
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184. The Borinqueneers: Puerto Rico’s Men of the 65th Regiment
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30:32In this episode, we celebrate and commemorate National Borinqueneers Day coming up on April 13th. It recognizes the bravery, service, and sacrifice of the 65th Infantry Regiment, a United States Army unit that consisted mostly of soldiers from Puerto Rico and the only segregated Latino unit in the United States Army. But the honor and fidelity of t…
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One of the most recognizable food brands in the world got started in a kitchen in Fairfield, Connecticut. In this episode, Natalie Belanger chats with historian Cathryn J. Prince about Margaret Rudkin, the woman who founded Pepperidge Farm. Read Prince's full-length article about Rudkin on the Connecticut Explored website here: https://www.ctexplor…
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182. Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
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50:00Are they pirates, profiteers or legitimately authorized extensions of George Washington’s almost non-existent American Navy? We’ll find out with guest historian Eric Jay Dolin, author of Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American RevolutIon. Dolin will underscore an element missing from most maritime histories of the American Revolution: a ragtag …
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181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950
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28:56181. Hartford and the Great Migration, 1914-1950 In the February 4, 2024 issue of the New York Times, journalist Adam Mahoney describes the Great Migration as a time when millions of Black people left the South to escape segregation, servitude and lynching and went North in search of jobs and stable housing. In this episode, host Mary Donohue will …
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180. Colonial Connecticut: Sugar, Slavery and Connections to the West Indies
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40:59Although Connecticut sometimes seems like such a small, isolated place on the map, it was connected to the far-flung, complex, cosmopolitan British empire even in the 17th century. This year on Grating the Nutmeg, we’re going to explore Connecticut’s maritime history with episodes on Colonial Connecticut’s trade with the British colonies of the Car…
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