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Berlin

Berlin
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About Berlin

Berlin is the capital of Germany, as well as its largest city by both area and population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the highest population within its city limits of any city in the European Union. The city is also one of the states of Germany, being the third-smallest state in the country by area. Berlin is surrounded by the state of Brandenburg, bordering Brandenburg's capital Potsdam to the southwest. The urban area of Berlin has a population of over 4.6 million, making it the most populous in Germany. The Berlin-Brandenburg capital region has around 6.2 million inhabitants and is Germany's second-largest metropolitan region after the Rhine-Ruhr region, as well as the fifth-biggest metropolitan region by GDP in the European Union.

On the show103 mentions total

Rosa Parks's Detroit house was dismantled and rebuilt in Berlin, and was sitting there for about two years. It went back to America, and then I think it might have to move back to Berlin because they don't want it.

from 273: No Such Thing As A Scuba Diver Covered With Meat, 2019-06-14 at 00:16:12 · read transcript

Other times Berlin came up

  1. Doesn't sound familiar. She's friends with Lady Gaga. So when she was 17 in the early 2000s, she was a young artist. She went on stage in Berlin doing some performance art. She decided hadn't tried it before to try and vomit on to a canvas. She lined up seven bottles of different colored milk died differently. Then the whole show is two hours of watching her throw it up.

    464: No Such Thing As An Average Bucket, 2023-02-03 · listen

  2. I'm going to build one when I get back home. He got back home and he built something that he called the Stone Island of Verlitz in the countryside near Berlin and it was a five story high kind of brick and stone building that he covered in all these boulders so it looked like a volcano. Then he built a cone at the peak of it and he put three fireplaces inside this like hollowed out comb.

    No Such Thing As A Rice Krispie With Feelings, 2017-07-28 · listen

  3. Prince Leopold went travelling round Europe, and he visited Vesuvius and thought, well, that's very impressive, this volcano they've got. I'm going to build one when I get back home. He got back home and he built something that he called the Stone Island of Verlitz in the countryside near Berlin. It was a five-story high kind of brick and stone building that he covered in all these boulders, so it looked like a volcano.

    175: No Such Thing As A Rice Krispie With Feelings, 2017-07-28 · listen

  4. One of the reasons why they tried to panic, because this kind of moral panic came, and it was in the newspapers that this was happening, and everyone's like, oh, my God, I'm just going to be walking down the street in Berlin, and people are going to rip my clothes off.

    No Such Thing As The Turin Towelette, 2022-03-04 · listen

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