It is with equal measure of sadness and deep appreciation that we say “so long” to Graeme Thickins (LinkedIn; ; Twitter; his blog) as an ongoing host of the Minnov8 Gang podcast. Like many of us the acceleration in his business, involvement as a board member for the wildly successful big data group Minneanalytics, alongside all of his other commitments, have made carving out the time to prepare and record the podcast just too much.
Graeme was one of the co-founders of Minnov8 and has been podcasting with us since we started in June of 2008 (hear that first show, and all of our other hundreds of shows, located here in our podcast archive). Besides podcasting nearly every week (and sometimes from his car, connected to Wifi in the cabin, when up at the lake) Graeme’s also written many posts; liveblogged events Minnov8 covered; interviewed startups, CxO-level company executives, and shot video. But mostly it was his deep and analytical understanding of the venture capital space and startup world that brought a unique perspective to this show.
That…and his energy, wit and willingness to be the butt of our “Photoshop jokes” all too frequently. So no…he’s not actually going to be modeling jammies for Victoria’s Secret, but we couldn’t help ourselves poking fun at him just one more time! 😉
Thank you Graeme.
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Like you, the Gang had a ‘filling’ Thanksgiving and joked about Dan Akroyd’s famous Saturday Night Live skit, Rovco’s amazing new kitchen tool, the Super Bass-o-Matic ’76, and TV’s WKRP in Cincinnati’s bit, the turkey drop. (Watch the videos at the bottom of this post).
Another round of great stories this week along with Phil’s Cool Thing of the Week: the 
We cover many stories this week including the inspiration for this week’s show title: 
As a former radio guy Phil knows acoustics. This week he was kind enough to podcast from the office bathroom, so he sounded great
We jokingly tweeted and mentioned earlier this week that we’d invited the Pope to be on this week’s podcast now that he was in the United States, but unfortunately his spokesperson said he had politely declined. We got a bunch of retweets, emails and mentions from listeners and now wish we’d actually asked! (Thankfully Phil was on a White House tour so he could photobomb the President and Pope).
This week’s show has two bonus guests: our guest host, 
Nick Roseth (
In 1910, former president 