Kansas City
About Kansas City
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its fourteen counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri and Kansas. The 8,472 square miles (21,940 km2) 2024 estimated census calculated a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri.
On the show — 8 mentions total
There was a guy called Alman Stroudger. He was an undertaker in the late 19th century in Kansas City. They were all manual switchboards at that point, obviously. He thought that the switchboard operators were deliberately fiddling with his connection.
from No Such Thing As A Litter Box In The Sahara, 2025-10-23 at 00:35:29 · read transcript
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This was a useful invention. Jumping a bit forward to 1905, and there was a guy who was called Almond Stroger, and he ran a funeral home in Kansas City, and he invented the Stroger potbelly candlestick phone, and he invented it. It's not a catchy name. and he invented the stroger potbelly candlestick phone and he invented Stick is where you you have that bit you pull by your ear and then you hang it up and it sticks I like it.
550: No Such Thing as an Ice Cream at Stonehenge, 2024-09-26 · listen
Right. They were sure. This was a useful invention, jumping a bit forward to 1905, and there was a guy who was called Alman Stroger, and he ran a funeral home in Kansas City, and he invented the Stroger Pop-Belly candlestick phone, and he invented... It's not a catchy name. Because the candlestick is where you have that bit, you hold by your ear, and then you hang it up, and it sticks up by like a candlestick.
No Such Thing as an Ice Cream at Stonehenge, 2024-09-26 · listen
No one would ever be able to search for them online, would they? You break the internet if you Google Google? It didn't work. Google went with Kansas City, Kansas instead. The mayor, he said he didn't really mind not winning, and he said, I've often wondered what difference does it make if it takes you 10 seconds or 1 second to access information. My life goes a little slower than that.
229: No Such Thing As The Great Modesto, 2018-08-10 · listen
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Coordinates: 39.0500, -94.5833