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About Iowa

Iowa is a landlocked state in the upper Midwestern region of the United States. It borders the Mississippi River to the east and the Missouri River and Big Sioux River to the west; Wisconsin to the northeast, Illinois to the east and southeast, Missouri to the south, Nebraska to the west, South Dakota to the northwest, and Minnesota to the north. Iowa is the 26th largest in total area and the 31st most populous of the 50 U.S. states, with a population of 3.19 million. The state's capital, most populous city, and largest metropolitan area fully located within the state is Des Moines.

On the show16 mentions total

There's one woman who has recently retired — she did it for 50 years in Iowa, every year she just made a cow out of butter.

from No Such Thing As Milk From A Yak, 2017-06-02 at 00:06:51 · read transcript

Other times Iowa came up

  1. The journal Times I read they collected articles from all over America about what had happened And they said that senator Clyde Herring of Iowa had called for more regulation of the press As a result of everyone thinking that the Martians had attacked which is pretty typical Apparently in new york one person had called the police and said I want a gas mask.

    476: No Such Thing As Othello's Casio, 2023-04-28 · listen

  2. Yeah, he said, I think he went up to £400 billion at one stage because he kind of just said different amounts all the time and he said that as soon as he got the money, obviously everyone would get the bit that they, you know, asked for, they would get a return on their money. He said that he was going to go back to America and he was going to buy up, I think Missouri and Iowa and a few other states and he was going to put a big fence around them and just live in them.

    380: No Such Thing As The Virgin Mary Toast Reunion Tour, 2021-07-02 · listen

  3. There was a campaign in a school in Iowa, I think it was, which was the hands-off or handshake campaign, which apparently was genuinely successful, which was saying to girls, you cannot have to hug each other every 40 minutes, maybe just a handshake, and now girls in this school go.

    51: No Such Thing As Dodecahedral Shredded Wheat, 2015-03-07 · listen

  4. Did it exist? The journal Times, I read, they collected articles from all over America about what had happened. They said that Senator Clyde Herring of Iowa had called for more regulation of the press as a result of everyone thinking that the Martians had attacked, which is pretty typical. Apparently in New York, one person had called the police and said, I want a gas mask, I'm a taxpayer.

    No Such Thing As Othello's Casio, 2023-04-27 · listen

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