Maine, every mention
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tap a year for its mentions
every year anyone Shane Parrish 11John Bragg 9Paul Assaiante 1Jonathan Haidt 1Hugh Howey 1Christopher Davis 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Maine comes up
Harrison McCain: The Potato Farmer who Went Big
- ▶ 6:43 Shane Parrish He pushed Irving to expand into Maine and New England, and they did.
- ▶ 7:45 Shane Parrish Local potato farmers were shipping truckloads of raw potatoes across the border to a plant in Maine.
- ▶ 27:16 Shane Parrish In 1975, they bought a plant in Maine, then another the following year.
How John Bragg Built 3 Empires From a Small Town [Outliers]
- ▶ 5:52 Shane Parrish They've been growing in the acidic soils of Nova Scotia, Maine, and Quebec since the last ice age. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:13 Shane Parrish One in Nova Scotia, one in New Brunswick, one in Ontario, actually four, one in Maine.
- ▶ 21:32 Shane Parrish My competitors in Maine still sell in the United States.
- ▶ 47:56 Shane Parrish John Bragg's main blueberry operations with methods from the 19 seventies. 2 times in the scene
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 36:51 Shane Parrish Vanderbilt faced renewed competition on his Boston to Maine steamboat route, responding with fierce public anti-monopoly rhetoric.
John Bragg: The Blueberry Billionaire
- ▶ 6:58 John Bragg Then in 1968, we had a real turning point when there were big crops in Maine, and, and the grower price went down, and 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:16 John Bragg Now the industry in Maine, uh, which is the mother of the industry, had about a fifty-fifty ratio between old farms, which tended to be smaller than they were here, but then they had the blueberry barrens, which were big fields that were a… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:37 John Bragg And my brother and a mechanic looked at some of these efforts that were done in Maine and other places, and they said, we can do this, and we can do it better.
- ▶ 37:04 John Bragg What's the crop in Maine? 2 times in the scene
Chris Davis: Three Generations of Wealth
- ▶ 3:40 Shane Parrish I want to start with your grandfather, and if I understand correctly, when you were 14 and, or no, 15 and 16, you were working for him up in Maine as a cook and a chauffeur, and that really cemented your relationship with him.
- ▶ 2:07:06 Christopher Davis So, you know, instead we have, we literally have a campground in Maine, you know, little cabins and, and it's, it's a place that we're very happy because it feels sustainable.
Paul Assaiante: Learning to Face Your Fears
- ▶ 24:06 Paul Assaiante They talk about, do you remember that bus ride in the snow on the way to Maine and
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 4:10 Hugh Howey When I went across the Atlantic, I hit the Caribbean, went all the way up to Maine, and then worked my way back down.
#61 Jonathan Haidt: When Good Intentions Go Bad
- ▶ 1:12:26 Jonathan Haidt If you Google, um, Mainers United from the state of Maine, they put on these