The Plaice to Know

Episode

413: No Such Thing As Squid Playing Games

2022-02-11 · 4 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. LaGuardia AirportOne-offUnited States

    The mayor of New York was Fiorella LaGuardia, so LaGuardia Airport is named after him. In 1935 he walked into one of the biggest markets in New York City and announced baby artichokes off the menu, saying: "I like…

    mentioned at 00:16:08 · See it on the map →

  2. LaGuardia AirportOne-offUnited States

    When LaGuardia said, you can't sell artichokes, then he had no one to sell his artichokes to. All the shops said, okay we're not going to do it. One or two people did carry on selling them, but they all got their…

    mentioned at 00:17:18 · See it on the map →

  3. JuraOne-offFrance

    There's an organisation called Burn Your Money which sent some members in 2017 to the island of Jura to burn some of their own money. They even have their own magazine, this organisation, which is called Burning Issue.

    mentioned at 00:39:58 · See it on the map →

  4. ToxtethOne-offUnited Kingdom

    The KLF are now in the funeral business as well — in Toxteth in Liverpool they're building a ginormous pyramid where every year they add new bricks, and you can buy a brick where you put in a few milligrams of the ashes…

    mentioned at 00:51:15 · See it on the map →

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