Elche
About Elche
Elche or Elx is a city and municipality of Spain, belonging to the province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community. With of 242,317 inhabitants as of 2024, it is the 3rd-most populated municipality in the region. It is part of the comarca of Baix Vinalopó.
On the show — 4 mentions total
If you go to Spanish football games, you will often bring sunflower seeds with you as a snack. Elche has decided to ban them because people crack them open, eat the seeds inside, and throw the shells away — the shells clog the drains, clog the pipes, rot and deteriorate the seats, the pigeons come, rats come, and they're having to basically redo the entire stadium.
from 593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 at 00:28:46 · read transcript
Other times Elche came up
They've all been decapitated and had their heads put on upside down. Who did this? That's amazing. Psycho. I should just say Elche, by the way, the football team, they're from Alicante. They were promoted to La Liga last season and I read as much as I could about them. There's not a great deal of interesting stuff apart from the kit man. The head kit man is called Pepito, whose name is Spanish for pumpkin seed.
593: No Such Thing As A Barney The Dinosaur In Westminster Abbey, 2025-07-24 · listen
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Coordinates: 38.2669, -0.6983