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Michigan

Michigan
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About Michigan

Michigan is a peninsular state in the Great Lakes region of the Upper Midwestern United States. It shares water and land boundaries with Minnesota to the northwest, Wisconsin to the west, Indiana and Illinois to the southwest, Ohio to the southeast, and the Canadian province of Ontario to the east, northeast and north. With a population of 10.14 million and an area of 96,716 sq mi (250,490 km2), Michigan is the tenth-largest state by population, the 11th-largest by area, and the largest by total area east of the Mississippi River. The state capital is Lansing, while its most populous city is Detroit. The Metro Detroit region in Southeast Michigan is among the nation's most populous and largest metropolitan economies. Other important metropolitan areas include Grand Rapids, Flint, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, the Tri-Cities, and Muskegon.

On the show58 mentions total

In 1976, there was a tornado in Michigan, and there was a house which was blown by the tornado so it went onto its side. People had to use a ladder to get into the front door.

from No Such Thing As A SCUBA Diver In A Tree, 2020-06-26 at 00:29:30 · read transcript

Other times Michigan came up

  1. No. But we all say righto. He was so famous that towns named themselves after him. There were two towns in, I think, Michigan, which named themselves Rudyard and Kipling after him. There's a place in Saskatchewan called Kipling. That is an interesting place for us because it's the town where a Canadian blogger called Kyle MacDonald traded his way from a paperclip up to a house.

    No Such Thing As A Squiggly Pineapple, 2021-03-05 · listen

  2. Head on collisions are hugely caused by falling asleep or losing concentration. Absolutely. Yeah. All right. There are large areas of Michigan with no rumble strips. Most places in America, they have to have them now on highways. There are large areas of Michigan with no rumble strips. Most places in America they have to have them now on highways, but there are large areas of Michigan with no rumble strips.

    580: No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 · listen

  3. These are US figures. Wow. They should be the same in most countries. Head-on collisions are hugely caused by falling asleep or losing concentration. Absolutely, yeah. Right. There are large areas of Michigan with no rumble strips. Most places in America, they have to have them now on highways, but there are large areas of Michigan with no rumble strips. Porcoa. Why? Ooh. There's no double-lane roads.

    No Such Thing As Bin Day On A Nuclear Submarine, 2025-04-24 · listen

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