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Brittany

Brittany
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About Brittany

Brittany is a peninsula, historical country and cultural area in the north-west of modern France, covering the western part of what was known as Armorica in Roman Gaul. It became an independent kingdom and then a duchy before being united with the Kingdom of France in 1532 as a province governed as a separate nation under the crown. Brittany is the traditional homeland of the Breton people and is one of the six Celtic nations, retaining a distinct cultural identity that reflects its history.

On the show โ€” 7 mentions total

There was news about a randy dolphin who shut down an entire beach. This was in Brittany in August, so Brittany in France. It was a beach in the Bay of Brest, fittingly.

from No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture, 2018-09-28 at 00:27:14 ยท read transcript

Other times Brittany came up

  1. I was literally just a couple of feet from the beach and the water was like knee high and I looked down, I was floating and I looked down and there was an octopus behind a rock and I was like, awesome because I love octopuses and I see them occasionally but it's definitely a special thing to see. Where were you in the world? Oh, sorry. I was in Brittany in France. Very nice. Yes.

    No Such Thing As An Inside-Out Dolphin, 2024-06-13 ยท listen

  2. It's a real plot twist at the end. It really is. Wow, horrifying end. Here's some people. William the third of England, Alexander the third of Scotland, Prince Alfonso, Portugal, Frederick Augustus II of Saxony, Duke Geoffrey of Brittany, Isabella of Aragon, Leopold the 5th of Austria, Louis the 4th of France, and William the Conqueror. They all died the same way. Monkeys? Not monkeys. At what point do we start suspecting the monkeys that erupted something big?

    No Such Thing As Captain Crossword, 2026-01-15 ยท listen

  3. I looked down, I was floating and I looked down and there was an octopus behind a rock. I was like, awesome, because I love octopuses. I see them occasionally, but it's definitely a special thing to see. Where were you in the world? Oh, sorry. I was in Brittany in France. Very nice. Yeah. There was this octopus and I was like, awesome. Fantastic.

    535: No Such Thing As An Inside-Out Dolphin, 2024-06-13 ยท listen

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