Argos
About Argos
Argos is a city and a former municipality in the Peloponnese region of Greece, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. It is the largest city in Argolis, having nearly twice the population of its capital, Nafplio.
On the show — 6 mentions total
Shorter I'm guessing No Their marathon is always The same distance Now Although they're not always The same distance The original Distance run After the Battle of Marathon Was I think About 22 miles. It wasn't any more than 25 either. There was a lot of early flux. Wasn't the first marathon by this guy that had to run from Argos to like somewhere else? He was reporting on a battle. Okay, the battle.
from No Such Thing As A Soggy Monk, 2014-05-09 at 00:14:58 · read transcript
Other times Argos came up
The thing is, right, so the real reason where I think that the other ones, the fake ones are better, is because there's this sort of diamond substitute called Zircon. There's like a lab-grown version of it called Cubic Zocona that you get in, like, Elizabeth Duke. and the thing about Zircon Sorry, that's a shop Oh yeah Sorry, that's a... Do you not buy your jewelry in Argos? Darling, you're probably wondering why I've brought you here today Well, great news.
No Such Thing As Internal Eyebrows, 2023-09-28 · listen
That is how we know how old the earth is because they found this really, really old zircon in these hills in Australia and then went through, counted up how many lead atoms there were, how many uranium. and that's how we know how all the earth is. That, I think, is much better than a sparkly rock. Can you get that one in Argos? I think you can get them in some jewelry shops.
No Such Thing As Internal Eyebrows, 2023-09-28 · listen
That is how we know how old the earth is, is because they found this really, really old zircon in these hills in Australia, and then went through, counted up, how many lead after themselves there were, how many uranium, and that's how we know how the earth is. That, I think, is much better than it's sparkly rock. Can you get that one in Argos? I think you can get them in some joy shots.
498: No Such Thing As Internal Eyebrows, 2023-09-28 · listen
That's before even my enfranchisement of the vote. Wow, that's amazing. Was it always like boxes and stuff? I'm not sure what the very earliest stuff was, but these days they do about 160,000 little stubby pencils per election. That's brilliant. I always thought they just got those from Argos. They're like baby carrots. It's that you... You get a normal sized pencil. You have to shave it down.
538: No Such Thing As A Sausage Cat, 2024-07-04 · listen
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