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This week, The Musafir Stories speaks with Girin Nayak, the founder of XOtoXO games as he takes us on a trip to the Chettinad region!

Today's destination: Chettinad region, Tamil Nadu!

Nearest Airport: Madurai Airport, IXM

Nearest Railway Station: Chettinad Railway Station, CTDN

Prerequisites -  N/A

Packing - Pack light clothes and sunscreen if travelling in summers

Time of the year - December to Feb 

Length of the itinerary: 3-4 days

Itinerary Highlights: 

• Girin is the founder of XOtoXO games that brings stories from India to the world, one game at a time. 
• We cover the very popular but less explored region of Chettinad with Girin - Chettinad is a region in Tamil Nadu that covers over 90 villages and is the home of the prominent and enterprising Chettiyar community covering the Shivaganga and part of Pudukottai districts. 
• The Chettinad region is peppered with over a 11000 mansions built by the Chettiyar community between the mid 1800s to 1900s - these mansions were built by procuring materials from all over the world, thanks to the trading roots of the Chettiyar community who were seafaring merchants travelling all across Southeast Asia for trade. 
• We begin the journey in one of the main towns of the region - Kanadukathan, which serves as a good base, given its strategic location. Make sure to visit the popular mansions in the town - Chettinad Mansion, Vishalam by CGH group.
• Girin also describes the architectural features, and structure of these mansions along with the front yard, courtyard, rooms and kitchens along with open roofs. Other things to check out in Kanadukathan include the markets, temples and the abandoned airfield!
• The next stop on the itinerary is Karaikudi, one of the most developed towns in the region. The Aairam jannal veedu or 1000 window bungalow, The Bangala are two popular mansions in the region. There are also vibrant markets for textiles, souvenirs as well as antiques. 
• Another of the towns in the vicinity is Thirumayam - the popular attraction in the area is a fort known as Oomayan kottai or dumb man’s fort, named after the brother of a famous Tamil freedom fighter who was executed here. The most famous mansion here is Chidambaram Vilas. 
• Athangudi is the next town on the itinerary and also happens to be the protagonist of today’s episode, as it is also the source of inspiration for XOtoXO games’ first board game. Athangudi not only has beautiful mansions but is also popular for its handmade tiles that are made in small factories. Girin also explains what goes into the making of the tiles and how this has inspired his first board game.
• We also talk about important temples in the region including one where terracotta horses are offered to the deity. 
• Finally we discuss one of the more popular exports of the region - the Chettinad cuisine! 

Links:

XOtoXO games on  Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xotoxogames/

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XOtoXO games on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100077484262331

Link to website - https://www.xotoxo.com

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God's desire for us comes from the kingdom of heaven. It is always much more than we can ask or think. God doesn't typically ask us what we want, because He made us and knows what we desire. He is preparing a mansion for all of us, but He hasn't asked us our style because He knows better than we know or what our soul desires.

In this special Deep Dive from Nerds & Friends hosts Will Shaw, Carey DuVal, and Josh Lindquist, Will educates us on the real life history, hauntings, ghost stories, and urban legends surrounding Cheesman Park in Denver, Colorado.

Get ready for wild, creepy stories interspersed with many tangents and nerdy jokes! 

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Belcourt Castle, the third biggest mansion in Newport, was built as a bachelor pad for Oliver Belmont and his many horses. Over the years, it developed a reputation for its paranormal activity. 

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Racing through an abandoned highway tunnel makes a turn for danger as the fun and excitement burn out. Sit back, relax, enjoy this short story, and thanks for listening!

Written and Narrated by Zack Miller. Follow us on Twitter @The_MNS_Podcast, Instagram @midnight_slumber_podcast, and our YouTube Channel - Midnight Slumber.

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This week we're thrilled to welcome Chris Browder, the singer and songwriter behind the band Mansions (@MANSIONS). Mansions released one of the best records of 2020 last June called, Big Bad. Chid and Sigh ask Chris about the record, why its tough to go to shows when you get old, what his writing process is like, Koufax, seeing big bands live, working an office job, and more. 

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Max Nussenbaum is an author and entrepreneur who currently runs the On Deck Writing Fellowship, a new Silicon Valley take on modern education and career acceleration. We talk about how On Deck is helping writers become entrepreneurs; how Max bought a mansion in Detroit when he was 23; why JFK is overrated; what cults teach us about community building; and optimal strategy for Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (which Max was on).

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On buying a mansion with no money...

And that is crazy, just to be clear, like I think in objective reality. And every single person we talked to was like, "Nah, do it, go ahead." It's just like that kind of place. So we purchased, it was just a mansion that had been abandoned.  Was a total wreck.

It was a seven-bedroom, 3,500 square-foot mansion in what... in 1920 was the richest neighborhood in America. Purchased at tax auction for just over $8,000 that we raised from a Kickstarter...

Justin Murphy: Wait, $8,000 total?

Max Nussenbaum: Yes, now that's very misleading because we ultimately put over $200,000 into actually fixing up the house. We formed an LLC, found an outside investor. It was essentially a very micro-scale, real estate development project because obviously we did not have anywhere close to $200-grand ourselves.

So the $8,000 figure is misleading, but yeah, eight grand and the house was ours. It needed a new roof, new plumbing, new electrical, new wiring, new everything.

Justin Murphy: What was the business model though?

Max Nussenbaum: It was literally a basic real estate plan. We're going to rehab this house, we're going to rent it out to other young people, as a co-living, co-working space and there's going to be rental income and then eventually we're going to sell it and it's going to be worth a lot more. 

I would guess it's probably worth $400-$450,000, which would be about double what we spent and put into it.

It would have been totally worth it, even if we never made any profits from it.

How Max is building the On Deck Writing Fellowship... 

But if you go Google, how to find users, how to get users for your SaSS product, you'll find tons of resources. If you were going to look up how to get readers for your email newsletter, there's really just a comparative dearth of information. And a lot of what you would find is like, assuming your email newsletter is the first part of a sales funnel from a company.

And it's going to tell you how to do SEO keyword research, which is...  If you're an independent writer who wants to speak or write from the heart about something, you are interested in, that's not really the right approach for you at all. 

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For those who are faithful in Christ, even though we face tough times and difficulties. Even sickness and death. In Christ, every day is still Thanksgiving. He left us with so many promises for help in this life, and in the next. 
Today we explore some of those promises and we rest in them, in faith! No more pain, no more suffering, no more darkness, all things made new, mansions in heaven! Take a moment to learn about the promises you have, and celebrate the gift of eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord!

At the heart of New York’s Gilded Age – the late 19th century era of unprecedented American wealth and excess – were families with the names Vanderbilt, Belmont and Astor, alongside power players like A.T. Stewart, Jay Gould and William ‘Boss’ Tweed.

They would all make their homes – and in the case of the Vanderbilts, their great many homes – on Manhattan’s Fifth Avenue.

The image of Fifth Avenue as a luxury retail destination today grew from the street’s aristocratic reputation in the 1800s. The rich were inextricably drawn to the avenue as early as the 1830s when rich merchants, anxious to be near the exquisite row houses of Washington Square Park, began turning it into an artery of expensive abodes.

In this podcast -- the first of two parts -- Tom and Greg present a world that’s somewhat hard to imagine – free-standing mansions in an exclusive corridor running right through the center of Manhattan. Why was Fifth Avenue fated to become the domain of the so-called ‘Upper Ten’? What were the rituals of daily life along such an unusual avenue? And what did these Beaux Arts palaces say about their ritzy occupants?

CO-STARRING: Mark Twain, Madame Restell, George Opdyke and “the Marrying Wilsons”

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Aaron & Liz are fighting for their own sanity when they play Mansions Of Madness Second Edition! This H.P. Lovecraft inspired horror game is moderated by a handy app while you battle demons and other creatures of the cthulhu bent! Light some candles, grab a torch, and get ready to jump into the Victorian Era to banish the darkness!

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