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About Arizona

Arizona is a landlocked state in the Southwestern United States, sharing the Four Corners region with Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah. It also borders Nevada to the northwest and California to the west, and shares an international border with the Mexican states of Sonora and Baja California to the south and southwest. Its capital and largest city is Phoenix, which is the most populous state capital and fifth-most populous city in the United States. Arizona is divided into 15 counties.

On the show โ€” 27 mentions total

In the 1880s, Arizona was haunted by a red ghost, which was a 30-foot-tall, monstrous red camel, which apparently trampled a woman to death. It killed a grizzly bear.

from No Such Thing As The Gunfight At The Amazing Corral, 2021-01-29 at 00:20:19 ยท read transcript

Other times Arizona came up

  1. I found out that that so you can go to, you know, like youth camps in America, summer camps, there's now a youth summer camp, that's a nudist camp, because it was thought that I guess young teenagers didn't have enough opportunity to engage in nudism or whatever. There's a rule at this summer camp. I think there are three or four of them in like Florida, Texas, Arizona. There's a rule that on the occasions that you do wear clothing, so occasionally there'll be scenarios where you put on some clothes, it's not allowed to be sexually alluring.

    50: No Such Thing As Doing It Dinosaur-Style, 2015-02-28 ยท listen

  2. He lived in Tombstone, Arizona, or certainly was there at the time, and there was a post-mortem that was done on a man who'd been shot, and there was a silk handkerchief in his breast pocket, and they realized that the silk handkerchief had significantly helped for.

    No Such Thing as Proust's Sausage Roll, 2023-01-05 ยท listen

  3. Some of it is. Phoenix. Phoenix, no. When was that? Was that 19th century or recently? It was founded in 1878, but people are going there now. This was a real thing. When allergies came into the world, A, we don't know where the hell they appeared in the world. It was in the 19th century. Then B, it became a really fashionable thing because it was the wealthier classes that were allergic to stuff, wasn't it?

    201: No Such Thing As Lobsters At The Lobster Festival, 2018-01-27 ยท listen

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