Times Square
About Times Square
Times Square is a major commercial intersection, tourist destination, entertainment hub, and neighborhood in the Midtown Manhattan section of New York City. It is formed by the junction of Broadway, Seventh Avenue, and 42nd Street. Together with adjacent Duffy Square, Times Square is a bowtie-shaped plaza five blocks long between 42nd and 47th Streets.
On the show — 8 mentions total
Peter Tripp was a DJ and in 1959 he decided to broadcast his regular show from Times Square for 200 hours. He sat in a booth and it went really badly wrong for him.
from 365: No Such Thing As A Smart Cheetah At Harvard, 2021-03-19 at 00:42:26 · read transcript
Other times Times Square came up
Oh, so it's kind of like those old resistors or trip switch or something, when the metal is supposed to, basically, it destroys the connection if the current's too strong. It's like a fuse box kind of thing. Wow. We're getting near the end of the year, and obviously New Year's Eve, in America, there's huge traditions of dropping things in Manhattan, sorry, in New York, Times Square. It's the, what they drop the ball. There's a place in America called Myers Town in Pennsylvania where you can see a giant aspirin tablet dropped.
No Such Thing As Chariots in Space, 2016-12-09 · listen
It's just like that, you know. Oh, yeah. Couldn't wander through Times Square without being mobbed. When he was in America, he was there, he did his show and stuff, but he also wanted to put the idea of an international copyright forward. Because at the time, everyone was copying his works in America, and he wasn't getting any of the cash for it.
No Such Thing As A Ham Bag, 2026-05-07 · listen
Dr. Pepper, the formula for Dr. Pepper, that's sitting in a vault somewhere. The secret ingredients of how you make WD40 are sitting in a vault. They were moved once, which was on the product. to 50th birthday. The guy who took it was the CEO, Gary Ridge, who rode on a horse through Times Square while wearing a suit of armour and holding the secret ingredients to WD40. Before you reach the drawbridge, yeah. That's incredible.
No Such Thing As Sexygesimal Time, 2022-06-24 · listen
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