Miami
About Miami
Miami is a coastal city in the U.S. state of Florida. It is the second-most populous city proper in Florida, with a population of 442,241 at the 2020 census. The Miami metropolitan area in South Florida has an estimated 6.39 million residents, ranking as the fifth-largest metropolitan area in the Southeast and eighth-largest metropolitan area in the United States. Miami has the third-largest skyline in the U.S. with over 300 high-rises, 70 of which exceed 491 ft (150 m). It is the county seat of Miami-Dade County.
On the show — 28 mentions total
Miami is the only city of any note in America founded by a woman. She sent him, during the Great Frost of 1894, some flowering orange blossom from Miami saying our fields are so fertile, even though it's so cold, that it's a great place to set up shop — and he eventually was persuaded to build the railway down there.
from No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 at 00:41:01 · read transcript
Other times Miami came up
Did you know the, um, I learned something about Miami, which I didn't know, which was very interesting in the course of this. The only reason he could bring the railroad down to Florida Keys all the way down was because it had extended down to Miami. There was a woman called Julia Tuttle, who lived on what became Miami in the 1890s. She really wanted to improve her business standing.
533: No Such Thing As The Farto Phone, 2024-05-30 · listen
It's not always over Miami. No, but it's probably a phrase, Andy. I think you're taking it too seriously. No, no, I'm with Andy because I googled this. I was like, this must be an in-joke, a Miami thing. The moon's always over Miami. No, no. What he's saying is, oh, you know, it's probably. When we look up at night, the moon's always there. Actually, you ever spoken to anyone who doesn't live in Miami?
No Such Thing As Fishing In The Sea Of Tranquility, 2024-11-28 · listen
Hop over to greenland or northern canada something like that but basically it was really hard to do and in fact in those days all like i read a thing that in the old days it took eight days to get from miami to buenos ayres in so like it was just a very, very slow process.
Little Fish: Juan Trippe, 2025-12-14 · listen
More places from this episode
No Such Thing As The Farto Phone put 3 places on the map.
- Black Watch · United Kingdom
- Florida Keys · United States
Coordinates: 25.7742, -80.1936