Connecticut
About Connecticut
Connecticut is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It borders Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capital is Hartford, and its most populous city is Bridgeport. Connecticut lies between the major hubs of New York City and Boston along the Northeast Corridor, where the New York metropolitan area, which includes four of Connecticut's seven largest cities, extends into the southwestern part of the state. Connecticut is the third-smallest state by area after Rhode Island and Delaware, and the 29th-most populous with more than 3.6 million residents as of 2024, ranking it fourth among the most densely populated U.S. states.
On the show — 23 mentions total
He built a gigantic mansion, and it burned down almost immediately. This is all in Connecticut where he retired after his long career — Bridgeport, Connecticut, where he became mayor of the town and had his whole small town political career towards the end of his life.
from 26: No Such Thing As A Yeti Fact, 2014-09-13 at 00:28:16 · read transcript
Other times Connecticut came up
There is... I'm so suspicious of what you're going to say, Dan. It's called the Mystic Aquarium. Where is it? In a village called Mystic. OK. In Connecticut, yeah. That's brilliant. Annoying, because I thought that that whole thing that maybe they were looking into telepathy or something like that. Actually, it's just the town called Mystic. Who named the town? Oh, it's some. The whales.
547: No Such Thing As A Mystic Beluga, 2024-09-05 · listen
Suspicious of what you're going to say, Dan. It's called the Mystic Aquarium. Where is it? In a village called Mystic. Oh, okay. In Connecticut. That's brilliant. Annoying, because I thought that that whole thing that maybe they were looking into telepathy or something like that, but actually it's just, it's the town called Mystic. Who named it? Who named the town? Oh, it's some...
No Such Thing As A Mystic Beluga, 2024-09-05 · listen
That was in the Constitution. The phrase, we the people of the United States. In an earlier draft, it was, we the people of the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. He said, I think we've got an edit in here. He came up with that lovely phrase.
No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 · listen
A non-recommended way, which has been a spate of lately, is people setting fire to them. It's been really weird. Every couple of years it's reported in America. In 2019 in Connecticut, there were 25 gallons of petrol dumped on a baseball infield and lit, and it was just by lit by 20 parents whose kids would play the weekend. Did they strike the match to get it going? Nice.
423: No Such Thing As A Seminole Sorting Hat, 2022-04-22 · listen
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