Minneapolis
About Minneapolis
Minneapolis is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and its county seat. With a population of 429,954 as of the 2020 census, it is the state's most populous city. Located in the state's center near the eastern border, it occupies both banks of the Upper Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota. Minneapolis, Saint Paul, and the surrounding area are collectively known as the Twin Cities, a metropolitan area with 3.69 million residents. Minneapolis is built on an artesian aquifer on relatively flat terrain and is known for cold, snowy winters and hot, humid summers. Nicknamed the "City of Lakes", Minneapolis is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks, and waterfalls. The city's public park system is connected by the Grand Rounds National Scenic Byway.
On the show — 20 mentions total
In Minneapolis, there was invented a piece of equipment that weighed 800 pounds — it was a magnet with the pull of 10 horsepower, involved 7,000 feet of wire, and was used to remove iron filings caught in people's eyes.
from No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival, 2018-01-26 at 00:37:06 · read transcript
Other times Minneapolis came up
Kids who were making noise And he decided he would go on a quest to find the quietest place on the planet And he's obsessed with finding quiet places, but he says and he's been inside the anechoic chamber in uh, Massachusetts Minneapolis Minneapolis, um, and he's clarified that you can't there is no such thing as silence And he said he found it really annoying going inside this chamber which didn't drive him mad like it drives other people mad I have read that.
100: No Such Thing As A Zillion And One, 2016-02-12 · listen
As a souvenir and that was a time before ebay yeah as well the name was dad shriver i read an article from this was the day before they were about to show the who shot jr and this was in the minneapolis star and they asked some local celebs who they thought had shot jr and like the head of the coach of one of the local sports teams said i don't know who shot jr but there's a lot of agents of players.
479: No Such Thing As Fake Coal, 2023-05-19 · listen
Can I tell you about an incident that happened? This is not a flight I was on, but it is in the great list of air rage incidents on Wikipedia. Oh, okay. In 1995, a group of 18 British and Irish tourists got Rowdy on a flight from London to Minneapolis. They started sending their... children to steal food and drink from the flight attendants carts. They're causing trouble.
No Such Thing As A Badger Love Note, 2024-05-02 · listen
It was kind of, kind of, I like him best. It is time for fact number three, and that is Andy. My fact is that beekeeping was only legalized in Minneapolis in 2009. I knew this. I knew this because I was a beekeeper a little way out of Minneapolis. I lived at the time in little town, an hour's drive from Minneapolis, and I would have sad, nervous, Minneapolis come over to my house and gaze longingly at my bees and explain that...
No Such Thing As A Peanut Hall of Fame, 2023-09-07 · listen
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