Grim & Mild Presents - Podcast Rankings and reviews

As always, Aaron does a nice job of story telling. I do love all the products of Grim and Mild. Seeing the past helps us shape our future. Another reviewer,icentaur.com, asked for more sources. This particularly dark chapter of American and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has always been of interest to me and I will offer a few recommendations here. These are academic historian level texts, but good reads. “Vengeance is Mine: The Mountain Meadows Massacre and its Aftermath” by Turley and Jones-Brown was just released. Another work by Turley with Walker and Leonard is “Massacre at Mountain Meadows” published in 2009. Both are very detailed taking primary sources and presenting them in a more prosaic form than one would expect from an academic work.

The third source is published by the Church and is a also along the same lines but is on the overall history of the Church. “Saints: The Story of the Church of Jesus Christ in the Latter Days” is a four volume series, the final volume due out next year, that covers the beginnings to modern times in great detail. The MMM is in Volume 2, but is not covered in as great a detail as with the other two. But it does give an excellent picture of the times to help the reader better understand how such a horrible crime could occur.

Aaron Mahnke always does an amazing job on his productions, and Grim and Mild is no exception. Bite-sized, highly detailed, and full of interesting information about many different areas of our history, you won’t be disappointed with this podcast. I’m just sad I’ve finished the series!

Though sometimes the message and story presented is difficult to hear, I haven’t heard something from Grim and Mild that I dislike. Well researched. Well written. Grim and Mild presents history’s stories that should not be forgotten because we need the lessons they provide. I highly recommend this show, American Shadows, and Noble Blood.

I always enjoy Aaron’s podcasts, and walk away learning things that I didn’t know. This has been a very difficult series to listen to, albeit an important one. History often isn’t pretty. One comment about the delivery of the “one more story” at the end of each episode—please have her listen to herself before publishing. The emphasis on specific words is unnecessary and distracting, to the point where I can’t finish listening.