The Plaice to Know

Episode

No Such Thing As Worrying About What Might Happen

2020-12-31 · 6 places on the map · episode transcript

  1. East BerlinOne-offGermany

    There was a big clash in East Berlin about updating the traffic light men. The East had particular traffic light men, and they were called Ampelmännchen, which literally means exactly that — the traffic light man.

    mentioned at 00:14:56 · See it on the map →

  2. Getty MuseumOne-offUnited States

    The Getty Museum in L.A. has such cool fireproof systems. They had the big wildfires last year, and they were pretty much licking at the sides of the museum.

    mentioned at 00:44:21 · See it on the map →

  3. North DakotaOne-offUnited States

    I found there's a place called Flasher, which is great in North Dakota, a place called Zapp.

    mentioned at 01:27:28 · See it on the map →

  4. National GardenOne-offGreece

    There was a movement called Zip to Zapp, where the mayor of Zaps suddenly found two to three thousand partiers tearing up the streets and setting bonfires in the middle of them to have this big party, and they had to…

    mentioned at 01:28:01 · See it on the map →

  5. WyomingOne-offUnited States

    There's a lot of butts in that part of the world, isn't there? Because butts like means it's like a raised bit of land or something. There's that B-U-T-E? So in Montana and Wyoming and Dakotas, there's loads of butts.…

    mentioned at 01:28:19 · See it on the map →

  6. South DakotaOne-offUnited States

    In South Dakota, there is a place which was the original center of North America, which was done by drawing two lines, and it is called Snake Butt. They put an obelisk on it and named it the approximate centre of North…

    mentioned at 01:28:42 · See it on the map →

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