Nevada
About Nevada
Nevada is a landlocked state in the Western United States. It is also sometimes placed in the Mountain West and Southwestern United States. It borders Oregon to the northwest, Idaho to the northeast, California to the west, Arizona to the southeast, and Utah to the east. Nevada is the seventh-most extensive and the 31st-most populous U.S. state. Nearly three-quarters of Nevada's population live in Clark County, which contains the Las Vegas–Paradise metropolitan area. Nevada's capital is Carson City. Las Vegas is the largest city in the state.
On the show — 28 mentions total
There was a journalist in 1875, I think, who went to report on the Nevada log flumes, and they were built really high on scaffolding into the air, like 70 feet in the air.
from 460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-06 at 00:58:39 · read transcript
Other times Nevada came up
A 1935 study, which was done by a Texas University, found that 75 percent of motel visits were one man and one woman remaining for a very short stay. They also found that they in one motel, 102 out of 109 guests signed in under fake names. They were dodgy joints. There's one really dodgy one, which is in Nevada. It's called the clown motel. Wherever you look, there are clowns looking at you from basically every wall.
265: No Such Thing As A Hole In The Bowl, 2019-04-19 · listen
The spooky thing in the 50s in Nevada they did a whole city to test atomic bombs on and they put people they dress people up in mannequins they got all these JC Penney mannequins it looks like family's having a nice time and then there's photographs in real time.
110: No Such Thing As A Dull Post Box, 2016-04-22 · listen
Good stuff. Did you have some stuff about riots? Yeah. You only need three people to cause a riot in the UK. We've got four. You only need two people in Nevada to cause a riot. Which is pretty good. Is there any way we can have a one-person riot? I've never found it anywhere in the world. I have looked. Just one other thing about beer.
55: No Such Thing As Samurai Nail Clippers, 2015-04-03 · listen
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460: No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll put 2 places on the map.
- Kennywood · United States
Coordinates: 39.0000, -117.0000