Virginia, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Virginia comes up
An Unlikely Empire | J.W. Marriott
- ▶ 24:25 Shane Parrish His buyer drove to the farmer's market every night at 10 o'clock when corn was in season, brought fresh corn in from Virginia farms, and stored it overnight in cold storage meat lockers so it would go out to every shop still farm fresh the…
Katharine Graham: The Woman Who Took Down a President [Outliers]
- ▶ 19:20 Shane Parrish On August third, Phil convinced the doctors to let him spend the weekend at the Virginia farm.
Cornelius Vanderbilt: The First Tycoon [Outliers]
- ▶ 17:51 Shane Parrish He raced competitors to Virginia's oyster grounds, sailed up the Delaware River to purchase shad, and ventured up to New Jersey's Raritan River, hiring horsemen to spread word of his available fish.
- ▶ 55:30 Shane Parrish Enter Edmund Randolph, a Virginia aristocrat and friend of Walker who proposed a daring conspiracy to Cornelius Garrison, transit San Francisco agent.
Tom Gayner: Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 1:11:12 Tom Gaynor 13th where I think that was a Friday and that that's in Virginia when, when things kind of, kind of shut down.
#132 Ret. Gen. Stanley McChrystal - The Essence of Leadership
- ▶ 1:01:13 Stanley McChrystal In 1861, he made the decision to join first the state of Virginia and then the Confederacy, and he spent the next four years trying to destroy the nation.
#87 Hannah Fry: The Role of Algorithms
- ▶ 27:17 Hannah Fry This is actually a few years ago, but he was 19 years old from Virginia and he was arrested for the, uh, statutory rape of a 14 year old girl.
#63 Hugh Howey: Winning at the Self-publishing Game
- ▶ 37:26 Hugh Howey I was at a writing conference in Virginia, and I was there as a, at the time I was reviewing, this is one of the periods of my life where I was reading a book a day.
#39 Tyler Cowen: Thinking About Thinking
- ▶ 21:00 Tyler Cowen One encouraging sign is outside of Washington, Route 66 into Virginia.